U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston for Eastern California has signed a Consent Decree agreed upon by attorneys for the United States and Organic Pastures and Mark McAfee.
It continues the 15-year-old jurisdiction of the
Continue Reading Organic Pasture’s owner accepts consent decree in 15-year-old raw milk case
Usually, I hold my opinions until the weekend, but this week it dawned on me that we may be experiencing the winter of raw milk’s discontent. I thought it best to speak up immediately.
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: The Winter of Discontent
Back in the day when the only test for getting a mortgage was the ability to “fog a mirror,” Sharon Palmer and James Cecil Stewart might have gotten away with it.
All they did was
Continue Reading Sharon Palmer still not sentenced in raw milk farm scheme
The owner of a California organic dairy is working with state officials to find the source of Salmonella that has twice this month caused recalls of his raw milk, even though he believes the state’s
Continue Reading Raw milk producer says state’s testing method is the problem
Organic Pastures Dairy Co. of Fresno, CA, is again recalling its raw milk products because of contamination with pathogens. This time California inspectors found Salmonella bacteria in the company’s raw cream. No illnesses had been
Continue Reading Salmonella in Organic Pastures raw cream spurs another recall
Mark McAfee, founder and president of Organic Pastures Dairy, has “lawyered up” before once again taking on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this time over the interstate ban on transporting raw butter. He
Continue Reading CA Dairyman Fights FDA Over Ban on ‘Raw Butter’ Shipments
A business plan announced a year ago for selling raw milk at retail outlets in Las Vegas and other locations around Nevada will fail unless it can surmount a critical legislative barrier on or before
Continue Reading Vegas Raw Milk Supplier Needs Some Luck in Carson City
Always a controversial topic, raw milk has landed smack dab in the middle of a tug-of-war policy disagreement between two major farm groups. Raw milk is milk that hasn’t been pasteurized to kill harmful, and
Continue Reading Two Major Farm Groups Take Opposite Tack on Raw Milk
Minnesota raw milk dairy farmer, Michael O. Hartmann, 59, avoided facing a jury next month by pleading guilty on October 15 to two misdemeanor counts: illegally selling raw milk and raw milk products, and selling
Continue Reading Raw Milk Producer Avoids Trial, Opts for Plea Bargain
For the second time in four months, California has issued a statewide recall and quarantine on dairy products from Fresno-based Organic Pastures Dairy. Both of this year’s recalls were triggered by the detection of
Continue Reading Organic Pastures Faces Another Recall, Quarantine
