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Borntragers say raw milk, OAD and grassfed are keys to their growing direct sales enterprise By Martha Hoffman Kerestes Hutchinson, Kansas — Half a dozen years ago, Loyd and Arlene Borntrager saw the handwriting on the wall for their conventional milk market. With no organic or grassfed routes available in southcentral Kansas, it looked like …
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Dutch Meadows Farm sees rapidly growing no-grain, raw milk sales business By Martha Hoffman Kerestes Paradise, Pennsylvania — It all started with Alvin and Elizabeth Stoltzfus shifting from commodity organic to raw milk sales. Customers started asking for eggs and meat, so they started diversifying. Almost two decades later, Dutch Meadows Farm is marketing a …
In Europe, buying raw milk can be as simple as putting some money in a vending machine and filling a bottle. “In all of Europe you will find some form of milk machine,” said Sylvia Onusic, a nutritionist and food writer. The phenomenon started in Switzerland, and each European country establishes its own rules regarding …
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North Country Creamery succeeding in rural area By Martha HoffmanKeeseville, New York — Small-scale dairy processing and marketing usually requires access to nearby urban markets. However, in northeastern New York, far from large cities, North Country Creamery is finding success selling dairy products throughout the rural region.
By Jim Van Der Pol Kerkhoven, Minnesota — We had been talking about the new dairy factories here in western Minnesota, my friend and I. We finished adding the 4,000 cows in the first one to the 10,000 in the next one, then the 10,000 cows in the just-completed one as well as the 10,000 …
Creambrook Farm has navigated growing pains and successes By Martha Hoffman Kerestes Middlebrook, Virginia — Five years ago, Ben and Kristen Beichler (Graze February 2020) were milking 32 cows once a day for a slowly growing raw milk herdshare called Creambrook farm, serving 470 families weekly about three years into their business venture. Today there …