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First Aired - 11/14/2010 02:00PM
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This week on Cutting the Curd Anne spoke to Alyce Birchenough of Sweet Home Farm in Alabama as part of her continuing State of Cheese Series. Alyce talked about how, using local sourcing and value added sales techniques, she proved some other local farmers wrong when they said she couldn't make a living off her modest 40 acres. Tune in to find out how cheese is doing in the great state of Alabama. This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cheese of Vermont, Dairy Farm Family owned since 1919.
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Cutting the Curd: State of Cheese - Alabama (19:00)
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Anne Saxelby, Cutting the Curd, Heritage Radio Network, Alabama, Alyce Birchenough, farmstead cheese, Encyclopedia of Country Living, a lot of other farmers doubted the success of Alyce's model, there were only 2 cheese producers in Alabama when Alyce started, now there are 10, raw milk cheese, direct marketing is the way to go, what are the greatest challenges for being a cheese maker?,Alyce Birchenough of Sweet Home Farm (15:45)
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American cheesemakers are very willing to share information with each other, Alyce has been a great mentor to other cheesemakers, raw milk cheese, Sweet Home Farm, terroir vs tetoir, terroir talks to the soil tetoir talks of a knowledge base, Thistle Hill, raw milk can be a rally cry, great tourist season in Alabama all year round,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/17/2010 02:00PM
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State #7: This week on Cutting the Curd Anne continues the saga that is The State of Cheese with Michigan: the next chapter. Aubrey Thomason of Zingerman's Creamery in Ann Arbor calls in to explain just how much of cheesemaking and mongering is packaging or cleaning or wrapping or straight up cheese creation. Learn about their lactic style fresh cheese, why the value added dairy industry can be so tricky, plus the low down on goat's milk cheese and the "raw milk bust". This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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Cutting the Curd - State of Cheese: Michigan (15:51)
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Anne Saxelby, Cutting the Curd, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Steve Jenkins, State of Cheese, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Zingerman's Creamery, Aubrey Thomason, 25% of cheesemaking is dish washing 25% is cleaning 25% is wrapping and the finals 25% is actual cheese making, goat cheese production, Cheese Experience Indicator, lactic style fresh cheese, blue mold originally comes from rye bread, double cream cows milk cheese, relationships with farmers, dairy farmers, adding value to dairy, hard industry to make profit in, Great Lakes Cheshire, Michigan Cheesemakers Cooperative,Aubrey Thomason of Zingermans Creamery (14:17)
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Joshua Miner, president, Michigan State University, grant for a cheesemakers cooperative, Barbara Jenness, Byron Center, US Department of Agriculture Rural Business-Cooperative Service, long term vision for dairy in Michigan, there are not many resources available right now, especially for goats milk cheese, milk bottling plants, glass bottled low temperature pasteurized milk, infrastructure, transport, distribution, value added products, www.greatlakesgreatcheese.com, raw milk in Michigan, somewhat legal, member share programs, raw milk bust, you should always buy raw milk from a regulated source, boom for small scale dairies, 60 day aged Great Lakes Cheshire, the cheese takes the shape of the cheesemaker behind it, future plans, making the dairy industry economically productive, home cheese making, education, courses, mozzarella classes, www.zingermanscreamery.com,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
