After incurring a moderate amount of fame from appearing on BBC's "Lambing Live," Kate and Jim Beavan have opened their barn doors to the public. Their country life classes cover a variety of topics, including butchery, cider-making and lambing. It's not always easy for the students:
Paul Mapstone, erstwhile computing whiz-kid and urbanite, tugs gently on a pair of legs protruding from the ewe beside him and observes with concern that, slippery hooves aside, there is...
Vermont farmers want the dairy industry to be a little more reliable, and the Dairy Security Act would offer farmers voluntary insurance coverage, guaranteeing a return on their investment:
With milk prices dropping because of increased production nationwide — particularly west of the Mississippi — Vermont dairy farmers once again are worried about staying in business, just three years after declining milk prices and increasing costs in 2009 threatened the survival of many...
With a little TLC, an old NYPD van became a grilled cheese-centric food truck. "Morris Grilled Cheese" is quickly becoming known in the neighborhoods of DUMBO, Chelsea, and Midtown, serving up sandwiches and egg creams.
“I wanted to take a step into something that wasn’t high risk,” said Jacober who launched Morris Grilled Cheese last January selling nosh like the $10 Croque Monsieur melt - smoked ham, pickled spring onion with provolone.
“It’s not like investing in...
Made from natural sheep's wool, more than 4,500 tiny sheep have been put on display to raise awareness of farming, as part of the Flock art project in Cumbria, U.K.
One of the key elements of the project is to promote the use of sustainable and biodegradable wool from sheep farmed in the Cumbrian fells as a natural alternative to man-made materials.
After Penrith, the exhibition will visit Farfield Mill in Sedbergh and the Sheep and Wool Centre in Cockermouth before...
A 750 pound cow was running rogue through the streets of Patterson, New Jersey after it apparently escaped from a slaughterhouse. Talk about stopping traffic!
Animal control officer John De Cando tells The Record newspaper (http://bit.ly/IqWC6F) it was like "Dodge City" with police cars trying to corral the 750-pound animal. But the cow managed to break loose.
De Cando tranquilized the cow after it...
It's tough for everyone these days, but dairy farmers are especially feeling the strain; the profession appeared second on CareerCast's 2012 Worst Jobs List. The jobs were ranked based on work environment, income, outlook, stress and physical demands, so it's easy to see how any farmer could end up on this list, especially when the cost of one's product constantly fluctuates.
"First, it’s a low-paying job. Second, it’s very dangerous working with large animals such as...
Among the new menu items Burger King has recently unveiled, the Bacon Sundae is certainly the biggest head-turner. Currently available only at Nashville locations, we're wondering if this dessert has a star-studded future:
The new delight may have been inspired by bacon-ice cream combos at smaller fast food chains Denny's and Jack in the Box. The latter, a bacon milkshake, inspired a national fervor despite the fact that it contained no real bacon and the widely-held...
Kriemhild Dairy and their sinfully rich Meadow Butter inspired the editors of Edible Brooklyn to ask Lindsey McDonnell, the Agricultural Economic Development Specialist Assistant in Madison County, some questions about buttermaking and dairy farm models.
A majority of dairy farms in NYS and the northeast are conventional tie-stall dairies with the Holstein breed of cow, which as you indicated, do typically produce higher volumes [of milk], although many farmers will argue...
The specialty foods industry has seen a spike in sales recently, topping $75 billion in 2011. Cheese is the number one specialty food purchased, with $3.44 billion in sales. We definitely contributed to that number here at Culture!
The next largest retail sales categories are meats, poultry and seafood; chips, pretzels and snacks; coffee, coffee substitutes and cocoa; and bread and baked goods. Functional beverages are the fastest growing segment, followed by yogurt and...
"Gillette E Smurf" has broken the current world record with 216,893 kilograms of her milk, thanks to her superbly long life span -- she's 15, or 105 in human years. This Holstein shows no signs of slowing down, either. She's currently pregnant with her eleventh calf!
He [dairy farmer Louis Patenaude] credits her success to good care and good genes. Four generations of dams all lived to age 10 or much older, he says. Smurf, whose middle initial “E” stands for her sire...
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