{"id":4844,"date":"2016-03-03T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=4844"},"modified":"2016-07-20T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T00:51:58","slug":"make-great-milk-milk-quality-workshop-with-gary-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=4844","title":{"rendered":"Make Great Milk: Milk Quality Workshop with Gary Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 25th<br \/>\n9:00am to 5:00pm<br \/>\nGovernor&#8217;s Restaurant Capitol Room<br \/>\nWaterville, Maine<br \/>\nFee: (includes all materials and a buffet lunch)<br \/>\n$50 for 2016 Guild Members<br \/>\n$75 for non-members (includes 2016 Guild membership)<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Cheese Guild will sponsor a workshop focused on helping small dairies create the best possible milk for their own use, and\/or for sale to the growing number of Maine cheese makers. Gary Anderson, Maine&#8217;s long-time dairy agent at Cooperative Extension, will cover these topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do we mean when we say &#8220;milk quality&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Maine resources<\/li>\n<li>Milk components and characteristics<\/li>\n<li>Milk quality of different dairy animals and breeds<\/li>\n<li>Quality variation dependent on the end use of milk (fluid, cheese, yogurt, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Animal health<\/li>\n<li>Good decisions during the milking process<\/li>\n<li>Comparison of milking systems, the challenges and benefits of each<\/li>\n<li>Sanitation process and tools<\/li>\n<li>The challenges of the organic dairy<\/li>\n<li>Proper milk storage, affects on quality<\/li>\n<li>Proper milk transport<\/li>\n<li>On-farm testing options for dairies<\/li>\n<li>Questions, individual troubleshooting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To sign up please send the full workshop fee with your name, phone number, and email address to:<\/p>\n<p>Maine Cheese Guild<br \/>\nc\/o Mary Belding, Treasurer<br \/>\n250 Walker Mills Rd.<br \/>\nHarrison, Maine 04040<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Cheese Guild needs to finalize the lunch count ahead of the workshop so we must receive your payment at least 1 week ahead of time to guarantee access to the buffet lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, April 25th 9:00am to 5:00pm Governor&#8217;s Restaurant Capitol Room Waterville, Maine Fee: (includes all materials and a buffet lunch) $50 for 2016 Guild Members $75 for non-members (includes 2016 Guild membership) The Maine Cheese Guild will sponsor a workshop focused on helping small dairies create the best possible milk for their own use, and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,7,100],"tags":[192,178,217],"class_list":["post-4844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-guild","category-learning","category-milk","tag-guild-workshop","tag-milk-2","tag-milk-quality","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}