Podchef | February 28, 2009
Small farmers are truly a silent minority. With just a little over 2% of Americans classified as “farmers”, we are a very small minority, as well, with just 57% of us earning well under $250,000 per year. This has me worried. Although small farms are on the increase, and inroads are being made into [...]
Podchef | February 25, 2009
When it comes to shopping, we’re all a bit piggy aren’t we? We go from store to store as the whim takes us. Most of us think nothing of going to the stores as many times in a week as it takes to get what we want. We use and consume resources at an [...]
Podchef | February 19, 2009
Elsewhere1 I have written much about the primary currency of the domesticated dairy cow–milk. I may have, in passing, even mentioned her gift of the occasional calf. Now, that is a dividend not to be sniffed at.2 But to date, I am pretty sure, I have never mentioned one of the chief payments a [...]
Podchef | February 18, 2009
There is something I just don’t get. Why do farmers always seem to forget to keep some of the cream for themselves? At at time of falling incomes and rising prices, surely holding something back makes sense, right?
Or is it that the American Farming Machine has gotten so big, that it can’t see it’s [...]
Podchef | February 16, 2009
Here is an udder. Bridget’s udder. I am sure she thinks the warm coating of hair all over it is nice. In truth, it is. Soft, hairy, warm, sweet smelling, and despite it’s pendulous nature, everything an udder should be.
However, in a dairy cow, especially a hand milked Jersey, udder hair is a problem. It [...]
Podchef | February 10, 2009
There was a time when having a family milk cow was quite common place. A house cow such as Bridget1, here, would have provided milk, dairy products and beef for a family. At times the excess would have been enough to sell to create, if not an income, than an offset–payment for feed, bedding and [...]
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