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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
First Aired - 04/18/2010 12:00PM
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Patrick calls into the show from Sullivan County with guests Anne Saxelby, Sonja Hedlund, Chally Comer, Dan Purdy & Mario Fantasma. Later in the show, the guys from Bion Technologies explain how to make energy from animal waste.
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The Main Course Introduction: Sonja Hedlund, Chally Comer & Dan Purdy (25:15)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Patrick is in Sullivan County, dairy farmers, Dan Purdy, Sonja Hedlund, Challey Comer, Apple Pond Farm, renewable energy education, Stephan Geiger, Jersey Cow Farm, Ross Wall, gas drilling can't make agriculture happen!!, Marcellus shale deposit, Halliburton, Halliburton doesn't have to disclose their secret chemicals they drive into the earth, why are we consuming energy at this rate?!, our demand must go down, solar hot water, wind turbine, workshops for renewable energy, www.applepondfarm.com, summer program for kids, disguised child labor, workshop on renewable energy, whole milk ricotta, dairy farming, Hudson Valley Fresh, raw milk, Saxelby Cheesemongers, Secretary of Agriculture, distribution, kosher cheese, shared cost, conference organizer, the number one industry in Sullivan Country is agriculture, the land is still affordable compared to other places, a great place to invest in a farm, food entrepreneurs, close to the urban market, incubator for agriculture to grow, product development, marketing,Making These Ideas Work! (23:08)
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mobile cheese truck, JUFF Radio, raw milk farmer in upstate New York, the commodity market and pricing is a crime, US Department of Agriculture, farmers are hoping for value added products to pay their bills, John Boy's Farm, there are 25 dairy farms in Sullivan County, average herd size is under 50, demand is not the issue, the issue is supply, NYU alone could buy all that cheese, local processors, farmland protection, there are plenty of good models out there, Steven Schmoeller, cheesemobile, Heritage Foods USA, American Indians, black farmers, Pigford Case, great dairy farmers dont always make great cheese makers, institutional procurment,Mario Fantasma of Paradise Locker Meats Joins the Conversation (24:35)
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waste created from slaughterhouses, underbelly of food processing facilities, waste gets picked up by a rendering company, heart, tongue, oxtail, the actual guts are not sellable, what gets done with it?, MAMP, Missouri Association of Meat Processors, animal parts rendered into bio diesel fuel, the average hog produces 30 pounds of waste to be converted, it will be separated and put into different categories, tonsils, SRM, BRE, rendering companies, AAMP, HAACP, regulations, verification changes, small slaughterhouses will be put out of business with these new regulations, zero pathogen growth, food safety system, USDA Agricultural Conference, Paradise Locker Meats, Mario Fantasma,James W. Morris, PhD & Jeff Kapell of Bion Technology (27:02)
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Bion Technology, James W. Morris, Chief Technology Officer, Jeff Kapell, Project Development of Renewable Energy, waste management, livestock waste is the biggest enviornmental problem facing animal agriculture, feeding operations, Omnivore's Dilmena, confined area feeding operations, CAFO, pollution, envorinmental waste management, Bion Technology uses microbial process, human waste, conventional technologies, costs way more than Bion Technologies, model developed around the commodity facilities, they need to be housed in a situation where manure can be routinely removed, enables control and treatment of the nutrients, greenhouse gasses, feedlots, E Coli, how do you address the environmental impact on a per head basis, housing design and infrastructure, how have big companies responded?, added value product line, traceability, from cradle to grave, premium pricing, ethanol model, industrial ecology, Cattle News Network, www.meatingplace.com,Turning Livestock Waste Into Energy (29:56)
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72,000 slots is a big CAFO, turn waste into residuals, environmental benefits of ethanol, offsetting fossil fuel use, it requires 4 million BTU's to finish one dried ton of distiller grains, changing the commodity market, environmental policy laws, tax credits for reduced energy or emissions, James T. Martin, all industrial complexes need to build the environmental cost into their cost of doing business, offsetting energy, thermal energy from natural gas, cow produced methane, is this because they are finished on an unnatural diet?, reducing nitrous oxide, Volatile Organic Compounds, Joel Salatin, our agricultural exports are $30 billion of our GDP, waster water treatment plants, nutrient trading program, nitrogen credits, Total Maximum Daily Loads, Bion has patents in place, saving taxpayers and the environment, invest in Bion Technology!, NIMBY, futurist, ammonia, VOC's, BET, TMDL,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
