Resources Archive - Straus Family Creamery

Forbes

In Los Angeles, An Ice Cream Dessert Is Getting Millions Of TikTok Views

The ice cream of your childhood dreams is deliciously reinvented at Coucou in Venice, California. The oversized vanilla soft serve is a twisted updo of Straus Family Creamery ice cream served in a celery green parfait glass.

August 18, 2023

Sustainable Brands

How Food Companies Are Incentivizing Suppliers to Rein in GHGs

Straus Family Creamery is included in World Wildlife Fund (WWF)'s new report. It examines the efficacy of rewards for climate-smart on-farm practices in getting suppliers’ help in eliminating Scope 3 emissions.

August 10, 2023

CBS News Bay Area

Activists, Ranchers Clash Over Proposed Changes to Point Reyes National Seashore

For several years during the drought, environmentalists criticized the National Park service for its management of a Tule Elk reserve at Tomales Point in western Marin County. But recently, a change was announced to the management plan that has the entire region up in arms.

June 19, 2023

Capital Press

Straus Dairy: Goal is to become carbon neutral this year

There are a lot of firsts in Albert Straus’ farming history. Straus Dairy Farm was the first certified organic dairy farm west of the Mississippi River, and Straus Family Creamery was the first certified organic creamery in the United States.

June 1, 2023

Epicurious

Why Does Organic Milk Cost So Much?

You’re strolling the aisles of your local market. You arrive at the cool, glowing refrigerator cases of the dairy section, poised to make a quick decision about what you’ll pour into your next glass of homemade boba or rich batch of pots de crème.

January 13, 2023

Associated Press for Washington Post

Organic Livestock Farmers, Hit by Rising Prices, Seek Help

Organic dairy and other livestock farmers are seeking emergency federal aid as they grapple with skyrocketing organic feed costs, steep fuel and utility expenses as well as the consequences of drought in many parts of the country.

December 15, 2022

The North Bay Business Journal

Marin, Sonoma clean power providers gearing up for rate hikes in 2023

One agricultural customer that chooses to pay for clean energy on its utility bills is Straus Family Creamery.

December 8, 2022

Comstock Magazine

A Sea of Hope

Straus Family Creamery founder and CEO Albert Straus isn’t waiting. He plans to incorporate Brominata into the everyday diet at Straus Dairy Farm by the end of 2023, part of his goal to make the farm carbon neutral by that deadline.

December 2, 2022

Barista Magazine

Non-Homogenized Milk: An Introduction

Milk is familiar to most of us. Not just a drink for children, it’s also often consumed by adults and is of course one of the key ingredients at cafés. But you may be unfamiliar with the processing that milk undergoes before reaching the market, and one such process is homogenization.

November 30, 2022

KRCB Northern California Public Media

Local organic dairies withering under huge jumps in production costs

After decades of growing demand, drought and a far-away war are laying low local organic dairy farmers and processors. Without cash soon, it's feared several local dairy operators may soon close up shop.

November 18, 2022

San Francisco Examiner

Carbon farming tackles California’s belching bovines

When it comes to climate change, cows have taken a reputational hit. These belching bovines have been villainized for releasing methane, a greenhouse gas with more than 25 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide.

August 19, 2022

Inside Climate News

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Methane Emissions

The Straus Family Creamery, an organic dairy producer in Marin County, California, made headlines last fall after receiving approval from regulatory agencies to conduct a trial of a new seaweed-derived feed additive called Brominata.

June 14, 2022

Organic Insider

The Playbook for GMO 2.0 is Going Exactly to Plan, Brands Step in to Combat it

If you are eating “animal-free” dairy or meat products that taste nearly identical to a traditional animal product, you should be asking plenty of questions. And more often than not, what you will discover is that these foods are anything but “natural.”

June 8, 2022

Dairy Global

Who will win the dairy carbon-neutrality race?

Thousands of dairy farms worldwide have worked to reduce carbon emissions over the last few years, if not for much longer, but only 4 have made a public commitment to being carbon neutral by a given date.

May 30, 2022

San Francisco Chronicle

To fight climate change, California approves seaweed that cuts methane emissions in cow burps

California dairy farms will soon be able to feed their cows seaweed to fight climate change after the state Department of Food and Agriculture approved the use of a seaweed feed shown to reduce methane emissions from cow burps, the first in the U.S. to do so.

May 7, 2022

Progressive Dairy

Red seaweed supplement achieves 52 percent methane reduction

Albert Straus, an organic dairy farmer in Marin County, California, made it his intention to look at how he could meet those goals and what it would take on his dairy farm to do just that. He wanted to be progressive, forward-thinking and a part of the solution.

February 8, 2022

San Francisco Chronicle

Dairy cows’ greenhouse gas emissions cut by 52% after eating seaweed at Bay Area farm

At a Marin dairy farm this summer, cows got a little something extra in their organic hay and alfalfa: a sprinkle of seaweed powder that holds promise for helping the state achieve ambitious climate goals.

October 27, 2021

The Press Democrat

After 27 years in western Marin County, Straus moves to cutting-edge creamery in Rohnert Park

In his dungarees and rubber boots, Albert Straus looked every bit the dairy farmer that he is. On this particular morning, however, the 66-year-old founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery was some 25 miles from his family farm.

June 8, 2021

San Francisco Chronicle

Here’s where household water use is highest in California

In 2021, an increasing number of water providers across California will be forced to prepare for water shortages as the state’s drought intensifies. For some locales, this could mean mandatory or voluntary restrictions on residential water use.

May 17, 2021

Science Friday

Seaweed Might Help Cows Go Green

When it comes to the bodies of humans and animals, there are a few functions that we’re usually discouraged from talking about. Specifically, the ones that involve releasing gas. (Yep, burps and farts.)

April 3, 2021

San Francisco Chronicle

Cows burp. Methane comes out. But feeding them seaweed drastically reduces the gas.

Beef and dairy production are considered important drivers of climate change, contributing roughly 5% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, mostly in the form of methane released by cattle and other ruminant animals.

March 20, 2021

Edible Marin

Finding Gold in the Waste Bin

What does a small trash bin tucked in the corner of a Straus Family Creamery executive office have to do with climate change?

February 23, 2021

San Francisco Chronicle

How Bay Area farms could give Biden a blueprint for fighting climate change

In one of his first acts in office, President Biden said he wants farmers and ranchers to tell him how to fight climate change. If he wants to hear from agricultural businesses already on the front lines of combating global warming, the Bay Area might be a good place to start.

February 13, 2021

Forbes

Cow Burps – Cattle Industry Poised To Lead The Way To A Cooler Earth By Reducing Methane Content

A new study out of the University of California at Davis shows a dramatic reduction in cattle methane emissions using red seaweed as a feed supplement. It also significantly reduced the cost of feed. The five-month study found that these reductions were sustained with no change in animal health or in the quality of the beef.

October 6, 2020

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In Los Angeles, An Ice Cream Dessert Is Getting Millions Of TikTok Views

How Food Companies Are Incentivizing Suppliers to Rein in GHGs

Activists, Ranchers Clash Over Proposed Changes to Point Reyes National Seashore

Straus Dairy: Goal is to become carbon neutral this year

Why Does Organic Milk Cost So Much?

Organic Livestock Farmers, Hit by Rising Prices, Seek Help

Marin, Sonoma clean power providers gearing up for rate hikes in 2023

A Sea of Hope

Non-Homogenized Milk: An Introduction

Local organic dairies withering under huge jumps in production costs

Carbon farming tackles California’s belching bovines

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Methane Emissions

The Playbook for GMO 2.0 is Going Exactly to Plan, Brands Step in to Combat it

Who will win the dairy carbon-neutrality race?

To fight climate change, California approves seaweed that cuts methane emissions in cow burps

Red seaweed supplement achieves 52 percent methane reduction

Dairy cows’ greenhouse gas emissions cut by 52% after eating seaweed at Bay Area farm

After 27 years in western Marin County, Straus moves to cutting-edge creamery in Rohnert Park

Here’s where household water use is highest in California

Seaweed Might Help Cows Go Green

Cows burp. Methane comes out. But feeding them seaweed drastically reduces the gas.

Finding Gold in the Waste Bin

How Bay Area farms could give Biden a blueprint for fighting climate change

Cow Burps – Cattle Industry Poised To Lead The Way To A Cooler Earth By Reducing Methane Content