Dean foods files for bankruptcy

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug I'll get you some smiley flags for your semaphor signalling

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[FarmerJamie]

Nooooooo! Deans has the only French Onion dip worth eating, maybe I will lose weight. lol

Lawson's dip!!!!!! the very best.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

You make very valid points @farmerjan

 

[Mini Horses]

I drink it raw -- but, goats milk. Would love a cow but, just can't justify one or the milk she gives. Sad but, true. I could "share" with a calf but, there's the feed bill. Gotta stay with my goats -- and it's really good milk!!

It is sad to see the dairies driven out. I totally agree about the cow and their being bred out of all traits -- same with chickens, no broody, no life, short term layers.

Do you happen to remember the Large dairy here in VA Beach? All golden guernseys. Prize winners, too. I believe they went out maybe late 60's --?? Think it was Bergy's Dairy. They delivered to your door with glass bottles. You were a young one but, may have heard of them through the milk producers and the diaries with such cows.

 

[farmerjan]

I was still in Ct at that time so no don't remember that farm. There used to be one here in the H'burg area that was all guernsey but they sold out years ago too. I bought 2 guernseys off a dairy that sold out in the 80's here above Churchville, and they gave more milk than you could imagine. I was making butter and selling it to the people I worked with when I was waitressing, fed hogs, bottle calves and all that. They were "cull cows" at that sale, and never could get either of them bred back, but they were worth the money and both wound up bringing what I paid about a year and a half later as cull cows. The one was bred when I got her the other open. The bred one had a bull calf, but she would raise any calf you gave her. She usually had 4 or 5 at a time nursing her, must've raised at least 10 or more. Called her "patience", the other I called "Belle" because she had a brass number tag around her neck and it would ring like a bell when it hit the little metal holder.

I do remember as a kid my grandparents getting milk delivered in the qt glass bottles and it having the cream on top that us kids would sneak down and stick our fingers in and get to lick off cuz it was so thick and creamy.... my grandfather "POP" would bellow, where was his cream for his coffee.... we'd all look so innocent.

 

[Hinotori]

I drink it raw -- but, goats milk. Would love a cow but, just can't justify one or the milk she gives. Sad but, true. I could "share" with a calf but, there's the feed bill. Gotta stay with my goats -- and it's really good milk!!

It is sad to see the dairies driven out. I totally agree about the cow and their being bred out of all traits -- same with chickens, no broody, no life, short term layers.

Do you happen to remember the Large dairy here in VA Beach? All golden guernseys. Prize winners, too. I believe they went out maybe late 60's --?? Think it was Bergy's Dairy. They delivered to your door with glass bottles. You were a young one but, may have heard of them through the milk producers and the diaries with such cows.

It was Bergy's Dairy. They went out of business in the early 2000s. That fire that burned the VA Beach Farmer's Market was the last straw. We used to buy from their store there.

I still have a few bottles from them.

 

[flowerbug]

i grew up kitty corner from a small dairy and spent some time there, my older brothers helped him out at times. i wasn't old enough but i liked visiting. it is still there as a farm of some kind, but not a dairy.