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First Aired - 05/16/2011 04:30PM
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This week on Cutting the Curd, Anne continues her State of Cheese series as we hear from Debra Hahn of Hahn's End in Maine. Hahn talks about the cheese market in Maine and how farmers and growers are working together to create great dairy products. Our second guest is Barbara Brooks from Seal Cover Farm, another Maine-based farm. Brooks explains keeping up with competitors in the cheese making industry and the importance of milk in the process. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.
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Cutting the Curd: State of Cheese - Maine (with Deborah Hahn) (18:21)
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Cutting the Curd, Debra Hahn, Hahn's End, Sophie Slessinger, largest exporter of blueberries, Maine, cheese makers, Maine Organic Farmers and Grower's Association, value added products, Common Ground Fair, cheese workshops, Maine Cheese Guild, Christmas cheese, cow's milk cheese, raw milk cheese, farmer's markets, pressure aged cheeses, www.farmersmarketonline.com/sm/maine.htm,Barbara Brooks of Seal Cover Farm (21:46)
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Barbara Brooks, Seal Cover Farm, Maine, goat cheese, mixed milk cheeses, cheese making process, pH levels, hydration, hard cheese, ripening milk, goat's milk, curd, cheese vat, goat vs. cow milk, cheese distribution, French style cheeses don't travel well, fiddleheads, pasteurized milk, whey-fed pork, curd-fed turkey, www.mainegoatcheese.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/16/2009 04:00PM
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On this week's Greenhorn Radio, Severine interviews John Clark of Applecheek Farm in Vermont about raw milk, its soaring prices and super-food attributes.
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Raw Milk Legislation (10:59)
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raw milk, one of the best nutritional products out there, Applecheek Farms, legislation around selling raw milk, legal to sell raw milk in Vermont, limitations on quantity of raw milk sales vary state-to-state, Department of Agriculture legislates, enzymes and fat in milk, what is raw milk?, why is everybody crazy about it?, enzymes in milk not destroyed by pasteurization process,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 05/09/2010 02:00PM
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Anne speaks with John Bunting of John Bunting's Dairy Journal to discuss the dairy industry and the monetary side of making milk.
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Cutting the Curd Introduction: John Bunting (16:30)
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Cutting The Curd, Anne Saxelby, How NOT to Raise F*@ked Up Adults, John Bunting, milk, http://saxelbypam.blogspot.com, John has an eclectic background, he has been a dairy farmer for years, indentured servants, Alpine regions, The Cow (1923), Northern New York, Kingdom of the Cow, Enclosure Acts, important part of American history that is not well understood, absentee ownership of land, land tenure, the idea of private ownership is a relatively recent development in human history, Delware County, rural farmland subdivisions, government policy, tax credits, tax incentives, boosting milk production, real estate, there is plenty of money in the marketing chain to provide farms, Lazy Lady Farm,Milk Prices with John Bunting (10:57)
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mandated by law to contribute to a checkoff or dairy promotion program, promotes the consumption of dairy products, dairy farmers are suffering financial, foreclosures, they are more politically vocal about agricultural issues in France than America, it is really determined by a handful of traders, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,, CME, between the fall of 98 and May 32rd of 2008 exactly one load of powdered milk had been traded, milk is harvested by the farmer twice a day, milk becomes diluted and processed, this allows the milk price to remain what it is, should be grounded in reality, making sure farmers have adequate income, the selling price for anything should be the cost of producing goods plus profit, concept of parity based on cost of input, CPI, Consumer Price Index, The Milkweed, Ronald Regan,How Can We Regain Control? (21:17)
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Butterworks Farm, Jack Lazor, Anne Lazor, milk is closed in public interest, its become politicized, we have a dysfunction political system in New York, Collin Peterson, Christine Barney, anti trust division of the Department of Justice, Madison Wisconsin, dairy hearings June 25th, a step in the right directions, USDA, leave it to the high priest and hope your milk soul gets to heaven, the up and down milk price is artificial, National Milk Producers Federation, we need a real health care system in this country, Chuck Schumer, most people in the Vermont legislator know dairy farmers, reconnecting with farmers, Vermont agriculture, New York State legislators are not truly informed, how can we turn this to action?, paranoia for small farmers, people are cared of small operations, raw milk paranoia, every 6 minutes a person in this country dies form a medically induced accident or infection, distribution and entrepreneurship, raw milk sales, collective processing, Patrick Martins, creamery in Sullivan County, a simple but delicious cheese, eight dollars a pound, progressive land use, putting farming first, regional / public markets, New Amsterdam Public, Sullivan County Planning Department, cheesemobile, we need a land grant university, Cornell, 1/3 of the income for Cornell comes from the public, they need to find the other 2/3, is that really what we want?, the public should have a voice, the public has lost sense on what real food is?,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
