The milk is pasteurized but not homogenized, so the cream rises to the top, similar to how milk was sold in the 1950s. Being a fourth-generation dairy farmer, Stap is used to the routine of early mornings, the long days fixing farm equipment and handling hundreds of Jersey cows. Taking something as ordinary as milk and making it into a specialty item is a growing trend among local dairy farmers. The creamery acts as a supplement to Stap's main business: a 250-cow herd supplying milk to the...

Dairy farmers that use the hormone insist milk from cows injected with rBST is safe. Utah's Winder Farms, for example, advertises its "all-natural" milk from "pampered cows not injected with artificial growth hormones. But numerous watchdog groups and advocates of organic and natural foods say it's not safe and has been linked to certain cancers and other health issues. Stores such as Dan's, Macey's and Dick's are independently owned and operated enterprises that pool their purchasing...

Department of Agriculture, is opposing the resumption of cattle exports from Canada for breeding or herd replacement purposes. Due to ongoing concerns about the effectiveness in Canada of the 10 years-old ban on feeding mammalian tissues to cows n the key firewall intended to prevent the spread of BSE, or mad cow disease n NMPF told the USDA that it would be imprudent to allow live animal traffic to resume. Due to ongoing concerns about the effectiveness in Canada of the 10 years-old ban...

More popularly known as BGH, or bovine growth hormone, BST interacts with other hormones in cows' bodies to control the amount of milk they produce. Today, about a third of American dairy cows are injected with rBGH, which boosts milk production by about 10 percent. In order to increase milk production, scientists working for Monsanto spent years in the lab developing a genetically-engineered synthetic version of the hormone called rBGH, or recombinant bovine growth hormone. According to...

Farm City Day a hit By CONNIE DORNFELD/Staff Reporter HUSTISFORD - With the full cooperation of Mother Nature, who donned her brightest and sunniest smile, the 27th annual Farm-City Day held on the David, Richard and Gloria Hafemeister farm Wednesday was termed a great success by Sally Schoenike, Dodge County 4-H youth development agent. Farm City Day a hit By CONNIE DORNFELD/Staff Reporter HUSTISFORD - With the full cooperation of Mother Nature, who donned her brightest and sunniest...

The result was Blue Rose rice, which, according to a contemporary description, "not only made the highest yield per acre, but it stood the highest test in the mills. In 1903, Wright announced that he would raise only seed rice and began work toward developing a seed that would last and that did not have to be imported. He developed seed rice that revolutionized the rice industry. To find that stock, he painstakingly opened thousands upon thousands of individual grains of rice, selecting...