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American Dairy Producers: Going Organic
By Craig Collins This article originally appeared in U.S. Agriculture Outlook on February 1, 2016. Reprinted with permission. By the time Albert Straus had earned his degree in dairy science...
Marin’s affordable housing crisis and the threat to rural communities
The town of Marshall, where I have lived and farmed all my life, is becoming a ghost town.
Sustainable silicon farming to defeat California drought
The drought on America’s west coast is taking its toll on the dairy industry as around 100 dairy farms now go out of business each…
Straus Family Creamery was first in U.S. to become organic
The leadership Straus Family Creamery demonstrated 21 years ago by becoming the first certified 100 percent organic creamery in the U.S. and the first organic…
Organic milk steers Marin farm production to record $101 million
In the two decades since the Straus Dairy in Marshall was the first in the West to become certified organic, most others in the region…
Straus Family Creamery: When Milk Isn’t Just Milk
Twenty years ago, Albert Straus challenged the very notion of “commodity milk” and since then, the dairy industry—in fact, the whole food industry hasn’t been…
Mindful Milk: A collaborative project to improve milk quality for dairy farmers in northern India
During a visit to California in 2011, Dr. Vandana Shiva, the globally renowned physicist, environmentalist and food-sovereignty activist from India, spent an afternoon at Albert…
Discovering mutual challenges and goals among dairy farmers in Northern India & Northern California
What do dairy farmers in Northern India have in common with dairy farmers in Northern California? Quite a bit. While environmental and cultural contexts are…
A dairy farmer’s tale: “With organic, there is so much less to worry about”
Richard Hughes, a Sonoma County dairy farmer of more than 50 years, spoke along with Albert Straus, this past January, on a panel at the…
