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gallon holding tank to await fur
ther processing.
The facility includes the mini
dairy that can process yogurt
items, ice cream, cheese, and
eventually specialty butters.
Their milk, sold in half gallons,
quarts, and pints, is labeled on
the refrigerator door in the retail
store as “cream line milk.” That
type of milk is unhomogenized.
The customer must shake it to
blend the cream in the “natu
ral” way to drink milk and sup
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the retail store as “cream line milk.” That type of milk is unhomogenized. The customer
must shake it to blend the cream in the “natural” way to drink milk and supposedly,
according to Heindel, more nutritional.
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He said, “Sometimes, to a
consumer, the milk doesn’t
always look pretty. But what’s
the issue is it going to be
pretty or more wholesome?”
A batch ice cream maker can
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Heindel believes that the prod
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All equipment in the mini
dairy meets OSHA regulations,
he noted. In use is a French pas
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lines. About 250 gallons per
hour can be pasteurized.
Heindel was careful to ensure
backups are present. The
market uses a 125-kilowatt,
diesel-generated backup genera
tor that costs about $lB,OOO.
A room used at the farm
market for storage will become a
small bakery in the future, noted
Heindel.
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All equipment in the mini-dairy meets OSHA regulations,
Heindel noted. In use is a French pasteurization system,
different in some ways from the American system. The
French is a high-temperature, short-duration system that
meets federal guidelines. About 250 gallons per hour can
be pasteurized.
dairy products have been
worked out. Heindel noted that,
in the bureaucracy, “there are
good people and some can be
nasty.”
For the Heindel family, it is
critical that the farm market is
perceived correctly. Plans are to
place an observation window
into the processing plant for
tour groups after all the “bugs”
have been ironed out.
They used the main road
frontage of Rt. 74 to provide vis
ibility. Fortunately, because the
market is located next to the
Clearview Elementary School of
the Red Lion School District,
zoning approval was easier to
obtain.
The farm itself includes Dan
Hushon, dairy manager; Dan
Wagner, field crops manager;
and Andy Peterson, beef mana
ger. Adam Rishel is farm market
dairy plant manager.
The dairy operation is
comprised of about 200 cows.
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“If we do this right,” said Jef
frey Heindel, store manager, “it
will help us and the dairy
farmer, as an example of how a
mini-dairy can be successful. It
will also create a good image for
the dairy farmer as well.”
The central issue: to market
the product, 50 percent of it
must come from the farm. A
farmer, noted Heindel, should
be able to “sell his products and
build a store to sell them in,” he
said. But what does the 50 per
cent refer to? The value of the
product? The amount in the
retail space? That is not speci
fied in the zoning.
Regardless, the farm market
will expand its retail offerings in
the days ahead.
According to Jeffrey’s wife,
Roxy, a grand opening is sched
uled May 11-13. Farm store
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through Saturday, and closed
Sunday.
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