Organic Valley

The Organic Valley dairy co-op, based in Wisconsin (USA), has 633 farmers in 16 states and one Canadian province. They have 20475 cows and 95000 acres. They claim that their success stems from paying farmers a fair, sustainable and stable price. They sell via natural food stores and supermarkets. They have also been active in getting schools to offer organic milk (The New Farm, 2003). 

The New Farm (2003) Organic valley achieves record growth in 2003. Locally grown beats organic in consumer survey, on http //www.newfarm.org... 

Note For an even more buttery and tender dough, try a high-fat, European-style butter such as Organic Valley s Pasture Butter, which has an 8p% butterfat content (higher than the typical organic butter s 80%). 

These three were the originals, with CROPP being the first to pioneer national and international distribution. In 1993, Horizon Organic Dairy began purchasing milk from CROPP, and eventually built an 800-cow dairy herd, now expanded to 3000 cows in Idaho. Horizon was joined in the market by various other start-up organisations, but none has yet developed the national distribution that the leaders CROPP/Organic Valley and Horizon have developed. 

Strauss Family Farms built the first dairy plant in Marshall, California. Here they make butter, and bottle milk in glass bottles. Organic Valley built the second plant in Chaseburg, Wisconsin, where they manufacture their European-style cultured butter and reload milk. These two facilities account for less than 10% of the organic dairy production in the United States. The remainder is done by a complex infrastructure of conventional dairy plants. 

Louise Hemsted, CROPP/Organic Valley, 507 W. Main Street, La Farge, WI 54639, USA. 

The gray powdered form of selenium should be used. The submitters purchased this material from Research Organic/Inorganic Chemical Corporation, 11686 Sheldon Street, Sun Valley, California 91352, and from Var-lac-oid Chemical Company, 666 South Front Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey 07202. 

N. Harada and K. Nakanishi, Circular Dichroic Spectroscopy-Exdton Coupling in Organic and Bioorganic Stereochemistry, Univ. Science Books, Mill Valley, CA, 1982. 

Hegedus, L.S. Transition Metals in the Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules. University Science Books, Mill Valley, California (1994)... 

This had increased to over 350 farms by 2002 see Chapter 10, section on Yeo Valley Organic Company, for details of developments. 

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