Smaller dairy operations are starting to take advantage of an impressive new age of technology.
Not exact matches
«We have to have everyday pickup now because we don't have the capacity,» Wiens said from Skyline
Dairy, a 240 - head
operation near the
small town of Grunthal that he and his brother Charles have owned since 1989.
But with the majority of
dairy farmers supplying to Murray Goulburn and Fonterra, and the bulk of these companies»
operations being focused on milk commodities for export, fresh drinking milk is a very
small part of the picture for most
dairy farmers.
Although, as consumer awareness is increasing about the benefits of grass - fed
dairy in the US, I've noticed that more and more US brands are offering grass - fed yogurt, cheeses, butter, cream, and kefir from
small family farm
operations that truly allow the cows to freely roam and forage on grass and herbs.
In the late 1800s Portuguese immigrant Constantino Bello, (likely the brother of Antonio Nunes Bello, one of the early Presidents of the IDESST — the Portuguese Social Hall established in Sausalito in 1888), purchased the «Ranch M» property from the Tamalpais Land and Water Company, and soon thereafter built several wooden structures for a
dairy operation, including a farm house, a creamery, a milking barn and a
small shed.
Just over an hour from Brisbane, in the Lost World section of the Scenic Rim (an amazing World Heritage landscape of mountains and rainforests), is Tommerup's
Dairy Farm, a small - scale operation that produces not only dairy but ethically raised pork and
Dairy Farm, a
small - scale
operation that produces not only
dairy but ethically raised pork and
dairy but ethically raised pork and veal.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of
small pasture - based
dairies have disappeared, their production replaced by CAFOs (confined animal feeding
operations)-- crowded industrial facilities that use methods linked to a variety of health and environmental problems, from antibiotic resistance to «dead zones» in coastal waterways.