Balfour Farm, Webb Rd
\nPittsfield, Maine
\n10:00 am to 2:00pm<\/p>\n
Pasture Walk and On-farm Processing of Milk<\/strong><\/p>\n Heather and Doug Donahue will open up their farm for a pasture walk on July 10 th Heather and Doug Donahue have been at Balfour Farm in Pittsfield<\/a> for two years, Lunch will be served to those participants who register before the event. To Balfour Farm, Webb Rd Pittsfield, Maine 10:00 am to 2:00pm Pasture Walk and On-farm Processing of Milk Heather and Doug Donahue will open up their farm for a pasture walk on July 10 th from 10-2 pm. Sponsored by the University of Maine Extension and the University of New Hampshire, the pasture walk will feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfrom 10-2 pm. Sponsored by the University of Maine Extension and the University
\nof New Hampshire, the pasture walk will feature presentations by Dr. Rachel
\nGilker from the Vermont Pasture Network and Pasture Program at the University
\nof Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Rachel will discuss estimating dry
\nmatter yields and intakes in pastures and general grazing management, as well as
\nideas around direct marketing of milk products. Measuring pasture intakes and
\nmonitoring dairy cow diets are important parts of recordkeeping on organic dairy
\nfarms.<\/p>\n
\nand quickly established their dairy. Originally shipping organic milk to a wholesale
\nmarket, they now direct market all their milk through a variety of farm products
\nthey produce on the farm. Heather will be
\ndiscussing the rules and regulations process of selling dairy products and Dr. Gary
\nAnderson from the University of Maine will be on hand to talk about testing services
\nand learning opportunities for processors available through the University of Maine.
\nAdditionally, the Donahue family is participating in a recently funded Organic
\nResearch and Extension Initiative (OREI) project entitled \u201cAssisting Organic
\nProducers to Meet the Demands of New and Emerging Milk Markets\u201d. Dr. Andre
\nBrito from the University of New Hampshire will speak briefly about the project
\nand some of the goals we hope to achieve through the research. Amy Beliveau, a
\nrecently graduated MS student from the University of New Hampshire, will present
\nher thesis work comparing the concentration of carotenes (precursors of Vit. A) in
\ncheese made from organic vs. conventional Jersey cows.<\/p>\n
\nregister, please contact the University of Maine Extension office in Waldo County
\nat 1-800-278-1426 in Maine or 207-342-5971 outside of Maine. Participants<\/a>
\ncan also register on-line.<\/a> For more information, please contact Rick Kersbergen at
\nRichard.Kersbergen@maine.edu Directions to the farm can be found at http:\/\/<\/a>
\nwww.balfourfarmdairy.com\/visit.html<\/a> This pasture walk is funded by the USDA-
\nNIFA-OREI planning grant # 2010-01932.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"