tailieunhanh - The Small Dairy Resource Book Information Sources for Farmstead Producers and Processors - Vicki H. Dunaway

Milk is the primary product produced and sold from dairy enterprises, but secondary revenue sources including cattle sales, cooperative dividends, and the value of manure are also available. In the ARMS data, the costs associated with these secondary items cannot be separated from those for milk. In order to estimate milk production costs to compare with prices for conventional and organic milk an equivalent milk production is computed (Frank). Following this approach, a milk production equivalent from both the primary and secondary products that would have been necessary to provide the same level of total enterprise income. | The Small Dairy Resource Book Information Sources for Farmstead Producers and Processors The Small Dairy Resource Book Information Sources for Farmstead Producers and Processors by Vicki H. Dunaway Project Coordinator The Hometown Creamery Revival Sustainable Affricultijfe Research Education SARE Outreach College Park MD April 2010 Editing Mandy Rodrigues Andy Zieminski Research Lauren Ketcham Liz Zimmerman 1 Table of Contents Cheese 3 Butter 20 Ice Cream 23 Other Dairy Foods 26 Dairy Processing 29 Food Safety 34 Business Marketing 36 Dairy Farming 41 Milk 46 Tips 48 Appendix 52