The Rural Voice, 1999-01, Page 23son from returning home, she's
switched to margarine in an effort to
get her four teenagers out of the
house. Pearce said if he tried that, his
teenagers would likely buy butter
themselves to stay at home. On a
serious note he says research into the
effects of the commercial prove it is
having a positive effect.
arkcting, and opportunities
M
for it beyond DFO, was next
on the agenda as Holstein
farmers listened to niche marketers
reveal how they have struggled to
market specialty products. Inekc
Booy of Triangle Farms in
Moorefield spoke on her family's
goal to establish their own on-farm
processing plant to make and market
organic
yogurt
and ice
cream.
Brucc
Schmidt
represent-
ed Quality
Jersey
Products
in Sca-
f'orth
which i s Ineke Booy: making
success-
fullyu e -
f ul home -processed yogurt
l ll y
marketing specialty cheese along
with yogurt, sour cream and quark.
Bill Rutledge of Pine River Cheese
was the other panel member who
talked about the co-operative's role
in marketing organic milk products.
Farmers wondered if in each case,
farmers shipping milk to these
specialty plants had to have quota. It
was explained that all milk in Ontario
is still pooled and all processors have
to buy milk from DFO. Required
amounts of organically produced
milk and Jersey milk is picked up
separately and the processors have to
pay the extra transportation costs
associated with that. Organic farmers
make their extra money from product
sales while Jersey farmers shipping
milk to Quality Jersey Products
currently don't see any extra returns
unless they are shareholders in the
company.
There was a lot of interest in
Booy's situation, where she will be
using her own farm's milk supply to
make ice crcam when she gets started
(they are currently in the building
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