Showing posts with label dairy goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dairy goats. Show all posts
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Goat Milking Parlor and Cheese Making Room Near Completion
Check out this story http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news05/goat-milking-parlor-and-cheese-making-room-nearing-completion-at-st-lawrence-countys-cooperative-extension-farm-20180608 from the Watertown Daily Times.
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Glenfield Goat Dairy Wins $10,000
Cool story from the Watertown Daily Times.
Check it out at http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news04/glenfield-goat-dairy-wins-10000-through-national-farm-bureau-program-20171110
Check it out at http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news04/glenfield-goat-dairy-wins-10000-through-national-farm-bureau-program-20171110
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Side Hill Acres Farm Goat Milk Recalled in Candor, Ithaca
New
York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball today (Wednesday Oct. 5) alerted
consumers that goat milk produced by Side Hill Acres farm, located at 79
Spencer Road, Candor, Tioga County, is being voluntarily recalled due to improper
pasteurization.
Proper pasteurization heats milk in order to
effectively eliminate all pathogenic bacteria, such as listeria and
salmonella. No illnesses have been reported to the ag department to date
in connection with this product.
The
recalled goat milk was sold at GreenStar Co-op Market in Ithaca and the
Side Hill Acres store in Candor under the name Side Hill Acres Goat
Milk. It was
packaged in gallon, half-gallon, quart and pint-sized plastic
containers bearing the container code number 10516.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Goat Fest Aug. 7 in Cuyler
Check out this Facebook link to find out about this weekend's Goat Fest.
Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/900293140117179/
Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/900293140117179/
Sunday, April 10, 2016
It's National Farm Animals Day
Each year on April 10, we celebrate all those animals on the farm.
It's National Farm Animals Day. Annually observed April 10, National Farm Animals Day was created as a day to raise awareness about farm animals and to find home for the abandoned and abused farm animals.
For more information regarding National Farm Animals Day, see: http://www.farmanimalsday.com/
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| Sheep |
It's National Farm Animals Day. Annually observed April 10, National Farm Animals Day was created as a day to raise awareness about farm animals and to find home for the abandoned and abused farm animals.
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| Beef cattle |
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Three New York Farmers Receive Next Generation Farmer Awards from Ag Society
The New York State Agricultural Society this year presented two Next Generation Farmer awards for the first time.
Here is some information on who won the awards for 2016:
The Next Generation Farmer Award is being presented for the first time in 2016 and recognizes excellence from beginning farmers.
Max and Trystan Sandvoss, brothers and new farmers in Genesee County, were recognized as 2016 Next Generation Farmer Award winners.
They started First Light Farm and Creamery in East Bethany in 2010, producing artisanal cheeses from their milking goat herd mixed with milk from a neighboring Certified Organic Jersey cow farm (Grassland Dairy), as well as bottling and selling cow’s milk and whole cream-top yogurt.
The brothers did not grow up on a farm — their father was a lawyer and their mother a teacher in the Hudson Valley. Both received college degrees, but neither received an ag education — Trystan graduated from Northwestern and Max from Harvard.
After early careers on the West Coast, Trystan and Max spent a year apprenticing at a creamery near Seattle. Then they decided to return to New York state to raise Nubian and Alpine milking goats and produce dairy products not far from their stepfather’s farm, Lor-Rob Dairy, with a goal “to make the kind of food we like to eat.”
One of the draws to the Genesee County location was its position midway between Buffalo and Rochester. They sell their cheeses, yogurt and milk at farmers markets and stores in both cities, and have recently offered a ‘Dairy Share’ using a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model of distribution with weekly deliveries to retail stores and drop points.
Max and Trystan go to farmers markets weekly, give cheese-making demonstrations and meet with garden clubs and Rotary groups to talk about farming. Leadership Genesee and other groups have visited their farm.
In all, more than 2,000 people have toured the farm and participated in cheese-making workshops, including guests from Canada and Hong Kong.
Everything that happens at First Light is done locally. Fields are seeded with grass that is grown on the farm or within 10 miles of the farm, and is fertilized with manure produced on the farm. The farm utilizes 100 percent organic practices with no hormones or chemical fertilizers.
Goats are pastured on the farm and fed dry grass from the local area. Whey, produced as a byproduct of the cheese-making, is fed to pigs on a nearby hog operation.
Everything is done with the environment, conservation and animal comfort in mind.
Next on the agenda for First Light Farm and Creamery is expected statewide distribution of their dairy products through a high-end grocery chain with potential expansion to other like-minded retailers.
After five years of hard work and passion, the brothers have figured out how to continue to grow and still enjoy a day off. But it is the stories of middle of the night births during kidding season, milk testing rituals and building a community that make clear the brothers’ love for the farm life that they have chosen.
Todd DuMond, the next generation on his family’s farm in Cayuga County, is recognized as a 2016 Next Generation Farmer Award winner.
Todd has fostered significant growth and expansion of the farm business since returning to what was a 600 acre cash crop farm in 2003, a couple years after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Today, DuMond Ag in Union Springs, farms nearly 5,000 acres.
Eric and Marge DuMond, Todd’s parents, started a small beef cow operation in Saranac Lake in 1980, and moved to the Finger Lakes five years later where they began the cash crop farm. Under Todd’s management, the farm has been on an aggressive growth curve, increasing steadily in size and diversifying business pursuits.
DuMond Grain, a soybean roasting business, was an offshoot that began in 2003 when Todd returned to the farm. In 2010, Todd began DuMond Trucking to provide an improved transportation option for the local farm community.
Similarly, in 2015 Todd expanded DuMond Grain to include corn grinding to produce cornmeal as a new commodity for the business. Most recently, DuMond Ag created a cover crop seed dealership and invested in a row crop farming operation.
One of the most difficult challenges DuMond Ag faces is climate change. As a result, Todd uses a variety of conservation methods that emphasize the relationship between increased weather volatility and the use of precision agriculture.
The use of cover crops and spatial soil analysis helps to protect and enrich the soil by increasing soil water absorption during heavy rains, reducing surface water runoff and possible erosion. Todd also uses reduced tillage and narrow-row planting, as well as subsurface drainage systems, catch basins, stand pipes and conservation strips to protect soil and water resources.
His precision agriculture efforts include precise nutrient application placement. And, when preparing the fields each year, DuMond Ag uses tramlines – the routes that tractors and trucks use to drive in and out of the field are the same year after year, limiting field soil compaction to those tracks.
Todd has served on the New York State Corn and Soybean Growers Association Board for about 10 years. He is also nearing the end of his nine-year term as New York’s representative to the American Soybean Association.
He has built relationships with local agricultural colleges, coordinating tours and talks, and for three years has hosted the Summer Crop Tour, an education day for production agriculture.
Here is some information on who won the awards for 2016:
The Next Generation Farmer Award is being presented for the first time in 2016 and recognizes excellence from beginning farmers.
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| Max and Trystan Sandvoss |
They started First Light Farm and Creamery in East Bethany in 2010, producing artisanal cheeses from their milking goat herd mixed with milk from a neighboring Certified Organic Jersey cow farm (Grassland Dairy), as well as bottling and selling cow’s milk and whole cream-top yogurt.
The brothers did not grow up on a farm — their father was a lawyer and their mother a teacher in the Hudson Valley. Both received college degrees, but neither received an ag education — Trystan graduated from Northwestern and Max from Harvard.
After early careers on the West Coast, Trystan and Max spent a year apprenticing at a creamery near Seattle. Then they decided to return to New York state to raise Nubian and Alpine milking goats and produce dairy products not far from their stepfather’s farm, Lor-Rob Dairy, with a goal “to make the kind of food we like to eat.”
One of the draws to the Genesee County location was its position midway between Buffalo and Rochester. They sell their cheeses, yogurt and milk at farmers markets and stores in both cities, and have recently offered a ‘Dairy Share’ using a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model of distribution with weekly deliveries to retail stores and drop points.
Max and Trystan go to farmers markets weekly, give cheese-making demonstrations and meet with garden clubs and Rotary groups to talk about farming. Leadership Genesee and other groups have visited their farm.
In all, more than 2,000 people have toured the farm and participated in cheese-making workshops, including guests from Canada and Hong Kong.
Everything that happens at First Light is done locally. Fields are seeded with grass that is grown on the farm or within 10 miles of the farm, and is fertilized with manure produced on the farm. The farm utilizes 100 percent organic practices with no hormones or chemical fertilizers.
Goats are pastured on the farm and fed dry grass from the local area. Whey, produced as a byproduct of the cheese-making, is fed to pigs on a nearby hog operation.
Everything is done with the environment, conservation and animal comfort in mind.
Next on the agenda for First Light Farm and Creamery is expected statewide distribution of their dairy products through a high-end grocery chain with potential expansion to other like-minded retailers.
After five years of hard work and passion, the brothers have figured out how to continue to grow and still enjoy a day off. But it is the stories of middle of the night births during kidding season, milk testing rituals and building a community that make clear the brothers’ love for the farm life that they have chosen.
Todd DuMond, the next generation on his family’s farm in Cayuga County, is recognized as a 2016 Next Generation Farmer Award winner.
Todd has fostered significant growth and expansion of the farm business since returning to what was a 600 acre cash crop farm in 2003, a couple years after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Today, DuMond Ag in Union Springs, farms nearly 5,000 acres.
Eric and Marge DuMond, Todd’s parents, started a small beef cow operation in Saranac Lake in 1980, and moved to the Finger Lakes five years later where they began the cash crop farm. Under Todd’s management, the farm has been on an aggressive growth curve, increasing steadily in size and diversifying business pursuits.
DuMond Grain, a soybean roasting business, was an offshoot that began in 2003 when Todd returned to the farm. In 2010, Todd began DuMond Trucking to provide an improved transportation option for the local farm community.
Similarly, in 2015 Todd expanded DuMond Grain to include corn grinding to produce cornmeal as a new commodity for the business. Most recently, DuMond Ag created a cover crop seed dealership and invested in a row crop farming operation.
One of the most difficult challenges DuMond Ag faces is climate change. As a result, Todd uses a variety of conservation methods that emphasize the relationship between increased weather volatility and the use of precision agriculture.
The use of cover crops and spatial soil analysis helps to protect and enrich the soil by increasing soil water absorption during heavy rains, reducing surface water runoff and possible erosion. Todd also uses reduced tillage and narrow-row planting, as well as subsurface drainage systems, catch basins, stand pipes and conservation strips to protect soil and water resources.
His precision agriculture efforts include precise nutrient application placement. And, when preparing the fields each year, DuMond Ag uses tramlines – the routes that tractors and trucks use to drive in and out of the field are the same year after year, limiting field soil compaction to those tracks.
Todd has served on the New York State Corn and Soybean Growers Association Board for about 10 years. He is also nearing the end of his nine-year term as New York’s representative to the American Soybean Association.
He has built relationships with local agricultural colleges, coordinating tours and talks, and for three years has hosted the Summer Crop Tour, an education day for production agriculture.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Lively Run Goat Dairy Receives State Award
Lively Run Goat Dairy, in Interlaken, which sells many of its artisanal cheese at Wegmans, recently received the 2015 New York State Agricultural Business
of the Year award.
The dairy was recognized by the state Small Business Development Center for expanding its cheese plant, adding products to its line and promoting its business with a tasting room and retail store. Marketing Director Katie Shaw said the business's net income increased about 450 percent with all the improvements.
Lively Run Goat Dairy consists of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans goats. Their milk is used make 12 different goats' milk cheeses.
Lively Run also makes three varieties of cows' milk cheese and is working on a new cows' milk Swiss.
The dairy was recognized by the state Small Business Development Center for expanding its cheese plant, adding products to its line and promoting its business with a tasting room and retail store. Marketing Director Katie Shaw said the business's net income increased about 450 percent with all the improvements.
Lively Run Goat Dairy consists of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans goats. Their milk is used make 12 different goats' milk cheeses.
Lively Run also makes three varieties of cows' milk cheese and is working on a new cows' milk Swiss.
of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans.
of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans.
of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans.
of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans.
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herd consists of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans. - See more at:
http://livelyrun.com/our-farm/our-goats/#sthash.RjpPuwvt.dpuf
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herd consists of French Alpines and Swiss Sanaans. - See more at:
http://livelyrun.com/our-farm/our-goats/#sthash.RjpPuwvt.dpuf
Sunday, August 25, 2013
What Happens When Goat Poop Spontaneously Ignites?
Oh No!
This story is just too strange for words. Check http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2013/08/22/foul-smell-spreads-for-miles-after-pile-of-goat-manure-spontaneously-catches-fire/ it out.
This story is just too strange for words. Check http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2013/08/22/foul-smell-spreads-for-miles-after-pile-of-goat-manure-spontaneously-catches-fire/ it out.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
New York State Fair 'One Thing" Series Begins on Empire State Farming -- Today's Feature, Dairy Goats
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| A dairy goat at the New York State Fair checks out the photographer |
What I have done is visited folks involved with various agricultural endeavors and asked them the one thing they would like the public to know about their animal or agricultural product.
The first one up: Dairy Goats.
"They are like productive dogs," said Holly Phillips, of Pultney in Steuben County. "And I want people to know goats are friendly, outgoing and trainable."
There were about 30,000 goats in New York state in 2010. About 13,000 were milk (dairy) goats and the rest were meat goats. The goat industry is growing in the state because more and more consumers are interested in goat cheese and goat milk.
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