{"id":1395,"date":"2009-12-10T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/10\/the-hope-of-the-graziers\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:31:00","slug":"the-hope-of-the-graziers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/10\/the-hope-of-the-graziers\/","title":{"rendered":"The hope of the graziers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/2009\/12\/dairy-farmers-polluters-of-land.html\">I blogged about NPR&#8217;s John Burnett&#8217;s story<\/a> about mega-dairies polluting the environment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121205338&amp;surl=http%3A\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news.php%2314868&amp;f=module-1001\">Today, Burnett brings us the opposite perspective on the dairy industry<\/a>: a dairy farmer in Ohio who sends his cows out pasture and believes his milk will sell because it tastes better than the commodity milk produced (mostly) at mega-dairies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">A bunch of years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/2146\/the-joy-of-grazing\">I profiled Kevin Sullivan, a North Country grazier<\/a>.  Grazing makes uncanny sense, compared to the contemporary mode of farming.  And graziers like Sullivan seem baffled by the way most dairy farmers do it:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><\/span>Why would we want to keep her on concrete and haul it to her and then haul her manure back out here.<span>  <\/span>It\u2019s pretty simple really.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-family: georgia\">It&#8217;s impossible to graze 1,000 or 2,000 cows.  Would it even be possible to graze 400 or 500 cows?  A return to grazing would mean reversing the &#8220;get big or get out&#8221; trend of the last 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>But this year&#8217;s milk price crisis has farmers rethinking everything.  The biggest question is whether farmers who have done a certain thing their whole lives can &#8211; or want &#8211; to change.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I blogged about NPR&#8217;s John Burnett&#8217;s story about mega-dairies polluting the environment. Today, Burnett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}