WHAT ARE RAW MILK BENEFITS?

Raw milk is milk as it comes out of the mammal that produced it.  We machine milk our cows in a modern concrete and steel parlor with pipeline and automatic take offs.  When the milk leaves the cows, it collects in a sealed stainless steel receiver in the parlor and then a level controller directs the pump to pump it through a stainless steel pipeline, through a filter, and into the bulk cooling tank. The tank cools the milk within 30 to 60 minutes to 33 degrees Farenheit.

Four times per week, we bottle the milk without pasteurization or homogenization. It pumps directly from the bulk cooling tank to a stainless steel bottling vat and goes straight into clean and sanitized glass bottles. Those bottles are then loaded onto a refrigerated delivery truck kept at 35 degrees F and delivered to retail grocery stores throughout three counties of North Idaho.

Each bottling batch is tested in our on-farm lab for Standard Plate Count (SPC) and Coliform Count. Each batch must be below the rigid common standards as set forth by the Raw Milk Institute.

PBS Food Forward Program on Raw Milk

PBS did a very high quality program for Food Forward on raw milk and milk products.  This is a long video, but is well worth watching!

Food Forward – Modern Milk

CDC Warning

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that raw, unpasteurized milk may contain harmful bacteria. Pregnant women, children, the elderly and persons with lowered resistance to disease have the highest risk of harm from use of unpasteurized products.

In light of their warning, and their reputation for dispensing accurate health advice without undue outside and political influence, we encourage you to use discretion when choosing raw milk and raw milk products for your consumption.