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Letter From The Editor: The Winter of Discontent

By Dan Flynn on February 21, 2019
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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.…
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Sharon Palmer still not sentenced in raw milk farm scheme

By News Desk on November 2, 2016

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.

healthyfamilyfarm1All they did was…
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Raw milk producer says state’s testing method is the problem

By Coral Beach on May 26, 2016

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…
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Salmonella in Organic Pastures raw cream spurs another recall

By Coral Beach on May 9, 2016

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…
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CA Dairyman Fights FDA Over Ban on ‘Raw Butter’ Shipments

By Dan Flynn on December 14, 2015

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…
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Vegas Raw Milk Supplier Needs Some Luck in Carson City

By Dan Flynn on April 1, 2013

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…
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Two Major Farm Groups Take Opposite Tack on Raw Milk

By Cookson Beecher on March 26, 2013

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…
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Raw Milk Producer Avoids Trial, Opts for Plea Bargain

By Cookson Beecher on October 17, 2012

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…
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Organic Pastures Faces Another Recall, Quarantine

By Cookson Beecher on September 6, 2012

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…
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Publisher’s Platform: Did you know? Some Interesting Raw Milk ‘Facts’

By Bill Marler on May 13, 2012

When I learned that a Campylobacter outbreak had been linked to raw milk products from Organic Pastures Dairy this week — making this the 4th outbreak linked to that farm since 2006 and the 6th

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