Founder and CEO Albert Straus Talks New Facility, Products, and More

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Straus Family Creamery has a lot to celebrate this year! From its 25th anniversary in business to the upcoming construction of a new facility and new products, the company is ready for its busiest year yet! Founder and CEO Albert Straus took a moment to fill us in on all the exciting events taking place for the company.
“We’re excited to reach this major milestone, our 25th year in business,” he said. “We know there are still challenges that we need to overcome. We continue focusing on creating a replicative sustainable organic farming system that is both environmentally positive and economically viable.”
Construction of the new facility will begin this summer. Albert said the company’s current manufacturing facility in Marshall, California, is nearing full capacity utilization, and it’s also a long commute for many employees. The new facility in Rohnert Park will increase capacity, allowing for the introduction of new products to help sustain more organic family dairy farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties in Northern California.

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A person wearing a hat, gloves, and work clothes stands at an outdoor research station at Correia Family Dairy, pouring a reddish liquid into a large funnel-shaped container connected to hoses and pipes. Several plastic sample bottles sit on the ground nearby, and shade cloths overhead provide cover. The setup includes pumps, tubing, and monitoring devices, suggesting a water, soil, or nutrient treatment experiment.

These very hungry microbes devour a powerful pollutant

PETALUMA, Calif. — The cows had to be deterred from messing with the
experiment.

Researchers from a Bay Area technology company had come to the sprawling
dairy farm north of San Francisco to test an emerging solution to planetwarming emissions: microscopic pink organisms that eat methane, a potent
greenhouse gas.

Kenny Correia, 35, of Correia Family Dairy, watched the team from Windfall Bio
working near the lagoons used to store manure from the farm’s several hundred
cows. The researchers erected a futuristic system of vats, pipes, tubes and shiny
metal supports. Then, when everything was assembled, they poured pink liquid
into one of the vats. “They were looking like mad scientists out there,” Correia
recounted.

He acknowledged initially thinking it was a “crazy idea” to integrate an outdoor
laboratory into a working farm. There was the potential for the cows to “be all
over it — licking it, pulling out wires and scratching on it,” he said.
But livestock farms are a significant source of methane emissions, and Windfall
wanted to see how much the microbes could help.

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