Last I left you, I was about to bust the doors open on the dairy farming industry. Well, not really. But I do want to share with you some interesting tidbits Mike and I learned while talking with Linnea, Joel, and their nutritionist in a cramped hot little office on the farm. Maybe I was the only one who was hot. Why did I wear skinny jeans? Anyway, their nutritionist was telling us about some of the differences between organic dairy farming and non-dairy farming. According to the Kooistra’s nutritionist, no matter what farm a cow’s milk comes from, it is tested for antibiotics. If there is even the slightest trace, or part per billion, of antibiotic residue in the day’s batch of milk, all of the milk has to be dumped. Now, keep in mind that milk from several farms is transported in tanker trucks. If you are the farm that tainted the milk with antibiotic residue, you are the one that buys the entire tanker full of milk, which includes thousands of gallons of product from other farms. Like I said earlier, Linnea considers a “good farmer” to be a Steward of the Land and Steward of the …

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