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For Family Fun Tour a Raw Dairy Farm

By Kimberly Hartke | Published: August 18, 2010
Bottle-Nursing-Calf

If you are looking for a unique way to entertain your children, and teach them about our farming heritage at the same time, visit a traditional raw dairy farm. Joseph Heckman recounts a recent trip to a Pennsylvania family farm.

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Past President of Veterinary Ireland says Mastitis a Ticking Time Bomb

By Kimberly Hartke | Published: February 5, 2010
got milk

Ireland is starting to grapple with seriousness of mastitis in dairy cows, while American experts twiddle the teats and blame farmers.

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RAW MILK FEAR MONGERING BACKFIRES ON FARM BUREAUCRATS

By Kimberly Hartke | Published: September 1, 2009
day 123 Vengeance will be mine

photo credit: Hoggheff aka Hank Ashby aka Mr. Freshtags THE ATTACK ON RAW MILK PRODUCERS IS AN ATTACK ON ALL DAIRY FARMERS by Robert Burns, Aiki Farms For many hundreds of years raw milk has been a wonderful food source. From mothers breast, we go to mares milk, to goat milk, and most popular of [...]

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