by David Gumpert | Mar 3, 2016 | What's New |
Those January illnesses in California from E.coli O157:H7 linked to Organic Pastures Dairy Co. raw milk are continuing to stir controversy. The latest controversy is being sparked by a new summary report on the illnesses issued by the California Department of Public...
by David Gumpert | Feb 29, 2016 | What's New |
When I think about Ontario’s latest legal steps to stamp out Michael Schmidt and raw milk, I think about the Shakespeare play, “Macbeth”. “Out, damned spot,” Lady Macbeth demanded in frustration about imagined blood on her dress. It was really her guilt at work over...
by David Gumpert | Feb 20, 2016 | What's New |
Is raw milk a scalable business? In other words, can a single dairy keep increasing production to meet growing demand, without limits? As a number of people have argued here, it could well be that the E.coli O157:H7 problem that, yet again, reared its ugly head at...
by David Gumpert | Feb 11, 2016 | What's New |
Mark McAfee credits Organic Pastures’ “test-and-hold” protocol with having averted a potentially huge E.coli O157:H7 disaster last month. As it is, at least four children appear to have been sickened directly by OPDC milk, and possibly two others became ill on a...
by David Gumpert | Feb 5, 2016 | What's New |
Sam Girod is a Kentucky farmer who runs a small business selling natural skin salves made from herbs such as chickweed, which seem to help relieve a host of skin conditions, including allergic rashes, psoriasis, poison oak and even skin cancers. If you look up...
by David Gumpert | Feb 2, 2016 | What's New |
Will Joyce Brown, the vocal dissenting member of Highland Haven Farm’s herd share, finally get her revenge on Ohio farm owner Adam Hershberger? Possibly, if it is up to an Ohio Department of Agriculture enforcement agent, Ron Cordial, who says ODA prosecution of...
by David Gumpert | Jan 18, 2016 | What's New |
One big positive to emerge from the Joyce Brown situation I described in my last post was her report that the Ohio Department of Agriculture appears to have washed its hands of the raw milk political piñata that other regulators can’t get enough of. In one of her...
by David Gumpert | Jan 9, 2016 | What's New |
There are all kinds of reasons members leave a raw milk herdshare—perhaps they aren’t drinking as much milk as they once did, or they find an alternative source of milk closer to home, or they don’t like the farmer’s sanitation practices, or they are moving to another...
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