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Tag: Dairy (cow)

Interview: Gran-Val Scoop

June 12, 2015 Posted in: CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, WRSI's "Local Hero Spotlight" interviews, Press Room

WRSI, June 12th, 2015. Nicole and Avola Berndt reveal the secret of the thirty-two flavors... quickly, and at ice-cream-cone distance.

Farm Profile: Hager Brothers Farm

May 22, 2015 Posted in: Farm Profiles

Massachusetts is home to 149 dairy farms, 42% of which are in Franklin, Hampden, and Hampshire Counties. Dairy farms represent only about two percent of[...]

Creamery the latest addition to 237-year-old Mayval Farm in Westhampton

May 18, 2015 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News

Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 18, 2015, by Fran Ryan. In March, the Parsons opened a creamery on the farm where they are now producing and[...]

Interview: Sawyer Farm’s Lincoln Fishman and CISA’s Devon Whitney-Deal

April 20, 2015 Posted in: CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, WRSI's "Local Hero Spotlight" interviews

WRSI. April 20 2015. "We did not grow up farming. We were living in New York City and we would spend weekends out on my family's[...]

Interview: Graves-Glen Farm’s Jim Graves and CISA’s Phil Korman

March 30, 2015 Posted in: CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, WRSI's "Local Hero Spotlight" interviews

WRSI. March 30 2015. "We had one year and we didn't have hardly any west winds. So, I figure, if they move the politicians from Boston[...]

Connecting Point: Robotic Milking

December 19, 2014 Posted in: WGBY's Special CISA Segments, CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

WGBY. December 17, 2014. In this segment, Phil visits Barstow’s/Longview Farm in Hadley to learn about their state-of-the-art robotic milking system and some of the[...]

Barstow farm project rewrites dairying economics in Hadley

December 16, 2014 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News

The Daily Hampshire Gazette. December 16, 2014. Editorial. Since 1806, members of the Barstow family have risen to long days working land on a rise[...]

Robots take over Barstow family farm in Hadley

December 5, 2014 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News

The Daily Hampshire Gazette. December 5, 2014. By Dave Eisenstadter. While negotiating the sale of the Agricultural Preservation Restriction rights on 123 acres of their dairy[...]

Poppin’ in the Pioneer Valley visits McCray’s Farm

October 12, 2014 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Poppin' in the Pioneer Valley. October 12, 2014. Take a tour of the pumpkin patch, milk processing center and haunted hayride, all at McCray's Farm[...]

Massachusetts food disposal ban celebrated at Barstow Farm in Hadley, where cows produce biogas

October 6, 2014 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

The Republican. October 3, 2014. By Mary Serreze. Local cows produce milk, cream, and energy at the Barstow's Longview Farm.

The little engine that could: Barstow’s Longview Farm

September 9, 2014 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Country Folks. September 2014. By Laura Rodley. Barstow's Longview Farm's BGreen Energy’s Anaerobic Digester powers the entire farm, plus surrounding houses.

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