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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, May. 7, 2014 - 8:02 pm
Photo of raw milk by Flickr user Kristen Taylor; published under Creative Commons license.
Two years ago, farmers Bob and Stacey Stap decided to start selling raw milk from their 100-cow farm in the Orange County hamlet of Pine Bush. It made sense: The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 - 3:47 pm
Above: A selection of Catskills dairy products. Photo by Toni Brogan.
The locavore movement has made a celebrity of many a humble ingredient, sparking a renaissance of old-fashioned vegetable varieties and elevating the lowly pork belly to the level of... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Apr. 5, 2013 - 10:42 am
Above: The girls and boys of Dirty Girl Farm, on a recent visit to Main Street Farm in Livingston Manor. Left to right: Cyndi Wright, Jesse Wright-Bourke and Lester Bourke, and Dexter, a 1-month-old Lamancha buck. Photo shared on Dirty Girl's Facebook... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 - 3:38 pm
Photo published under Creative Commons license.
For decades, small dairy farms have been disappearing from the rural upstate New York landscape, as rising costs outpace milk prices and farmers struggle to stay in business.
Last week, in a column published... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 - 9:53 am
The Daily Star reports that on Sunday night, fire tore through a barn on a dairy farm in Franklin, killing over 20 milk cows and calves and putting an end to a century of dairy farming by the Boning family.
Some of the cows were able to be rescued from... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 31, 2012 - 10:18 am
A familiar sight that won't be cropping up along Delaware County roadways this year: The iconic cow signs for the Meredith Dairy Fest. Photo by Carolyn Simmons of West Laurens; shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group pool.
As if the brutal economy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, May. 14, 2012 - 10:27 am
The notice from Fraley Auction Company, announcing the Friday, May 11 auction of Callicoon dairy farmer Ken Peters's herd, is short and businesslike. But any farmer knows what a devastating tale lies behind this curt announcement:
100 milking, 35 dry, (65... Read more
Dairy dossier: Tax breaks for working girls, the low price of NY milk, and Chobani's dangerous plant
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012 - 3:53 pm
Born to depreciate. Photo by Flickr user Benjamin Golub; published under Creative Commons license.
Q: How is a milk cow like a fax machine?
A: She can be written off as a business expense. And under a new federal law proposed by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 - 6:07 pm
After the flooding of Irene and Lee, NYC food blogger Liza de Guia, who makes short behind-the-scenes documentary films about food from field to fork, visited Maple Downs Farm in Middleburgh. What she found was a landscape that has become all too familiar... Read more
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