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Raw milk farmers are under attack once again, this time in Pennsylvania. The Department of Agriculture is being accused of filing false claims about unpasteurized milk contamination. Your Family Farmer, a Chambersburg-based association of farms, was recently ordered to terminate ...

If you are like many homesteaders, you may dream of one day owning your own dairy cow to peacefully graze your pasture, providing you and your family with fresh milk, butter, cream, yogurt and cheeses. With the ever-rising price of ...

Preserving dairy products is tricky, but it can be done. A part of storing food for emergencies is ensuring that the food you store is nourishing and will keep you and your family fortified for a time when food may ...

If you have ever looked at the packaging on your dairy products, you may have been shocked to see that most of them are not 100 percent pure dairy. Many dairy products contain additives and preservatives. If you are trying ...

While most people in the Western hemisphere are brought up thinking of milk as a cow product, in much of the world, goats are the primary source of milk. For a smaller homestead, goats make perfect sense. They take up ...

State lawmakers in Wyoming are considering allowing dairy farmers to sell raw milk in store. Wyoming is considering allowing grocery stores to sell raw milk. State lawmakers tasked their Joint Agriculture Interim Committee with exploring the idea of allowing retail ...

For most of our nation’s history, and for thousands of years before that, people have consumed raw milk from their cows, goats, and other livestock. Today however, raw milk is almost unknown, as the vast majority of Americans drink only ...

Not long ago, the American milk industry consisted almost entirely of cow dairy milk, with only goat milk being available in some rural areas. As goat, soy, and other milk alternatives begin to grow more popular, however, more diversity in ...

As a new mother or father, you are probably adjusting to having spit up on you when your baby burps. You may not realize that large amounts of spit up can actually indicate a condition known as acid reflux. Typically, ...

As a young girl growing up on a farm, the idea that milk was healthy was firmly implanted into my head. My family drank three glasses a day—breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing was sweeter than sitting down to a hearty ...