Sentences with phrase «family dairy farm»

By the 1970s, the typical landscape of small family dairy farming in Northern California had shifted dramatically.

Straus Family Creamery buys certified organic, Non-GMO Project Verified milk from eight other organic, local family farms: the two Tresch family dairy farms, Hughes, Correia, Brazil, Silacci, Mendoza, and Cypress Lane Ranch.

The Marshall, Calif. - based operator wants family dairy farms in northern California's Marin and Sonoma Counties to thrive, and that is a key focus of its operating strategies.

The number of family dairy farms was in sharp decline, having dropped from 4.6 million in 1940 to 650,000 in 1970.

The Straus family legacy started in 1941 with Straus Family Dairy Farm in the small town of Marshall, CA, along the shores of Tomales Bay on the Northern California Coast.

We visited the Werkhoven Family Dairy Farm in Monroe, which has been in the Werkhoven family since 1959.

Organic Valley operates within a cooperative business model that pools together family dairy farms» products and profits, and it's been that way since 1988 when the company had just a handful of Midwest family farmers in its circle.

Larry Stap's fifth - generation family dairy farm has come a long way since his great grandfather established it in Lynden, Wash., in 1910.

1887 November 15: Georgia Totto O'Keeffe born to Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe at family dairy farm, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, the first girl and the second of seven children, including Francis Calyxtus (1885 - 1959), Ida Ten Eyck (1889 - 1961), Anita Natalie (1891 - 1985), Alexius Wyckoff (1892 - 1930), Catherine Blanche (1895 - 1987), and Claudia Ruth (1899 - 1984).

Following our success with manure digester projects on the Schrack and Dovan family farms, Fred and Cindy England ramped up a manure digester on their 700 - cow family dairy farm in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, with upfront funding from NativeEnergy.

Straus Family Creamery currently buys certified organic, non-GMO verified milk from eight certified organic family farms in Northern California: the two Tresch family dairy farms, the Hughes, Correia, Brazil, Silacci, and Mendoza dairies, and Cypress Lane Ranch, ensuring an adequate supply of certified organic dairy products of exceptional quality.

The Marshall, Calif. - based operator wants family dairy farms in...

Best - selling author Henry DeVries began one of his bios like this: At the age of 6, Henry began working on the family dairy farm.

A: In the 1970s, when I returned home to my family's dairy farm after college, the landscape of small, family dairy farming was shifting.

Shortly thereafter, the Hugheses converted their family dairy farm to certified organic and joined as a supplier.

Bill Straus started the family dairy farm in 1941, with a commitment to being responsible stewards of the land.

A family dairy farm in Rutland, just south of Fort Drum, has struck the largest deal yet.

Davidson was a native of Canada who grew up on a family dairy farm near Norwich, Ontario.

Wine comes from local vineyards, family dairy farms haven't gone out of business yet, and the same applies to meat farms.

After graduating from the University of Illinois, he and his wife, Jolene operated the family dairy farm with his parents for 12 years.

The judge noted that the fact family members do often work very long hours on a family dairy farm and take very few holidays does not mean this sort of work is not a detriment to the person doing the work.