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June 1, 2018 CapitalPress.com New niche: A2 milk from Guernseys gains popularity 5 Lots of used disks in stock! By DIANNA TROYER For the Capital Press New Holland 1475 - $7,500 Maxxum 115 - $40,000 16ft 2300h head, 540 PTO MFWD w/760 Self-Leveling Loader, 5800 Hrs. BRAND NEW MASSEY 9145 - NOW $19,500 16’, Dbl. Hyd. Cond., new old stock headers still in factory shipping crates. BC5080 BALER - $18,500 Lower use three string light kit and hydraulic tensioner GENIE S-60 60 ft reach, duetz air cooled diesel, 5400 hrs $25,000 JD 630 MoCo 9’, Impeller Conditioner, Lightly Used, Demo Unit $18,500 * AG EQUIPMENT * SALVAGED TRACTORS * CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT * PARTS (Save up to 50% buying used parts) Our yard has (4) 5 miles of road. Free tours given daily! CELEBRATING 28 YEARS IN THE AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY BUSINESS. D18-3/108 Two dairies, in eastern and northern Idaho, are filling a niche market with Guernsey cow milk that has an easily digestible protein not found in most commercially sold milk. Most milk has a combina- tion of proteins, A1 and A2, while the Guernsey milk has only A2 protein and has be- come increasingly popular with consumers who suspect they are lactose intolerant. David Spencer, a dairy farmer in Monteview 50 miles Courtesy of David Spencer northwest of Idaho Falls, feared his wife, Michelle, was David and Michelle Spencer raise their children on milk from their allergic to milk because her Guernsey cows. stomach ached after she drank it. When she tried A2 milk, her ing because people like it so started the dairy with his wife, much,” said Spencer. “On our Debra, 53, in 2013. pains disappeared. “We wanted to provide “A dairyman’s wife just Facebook page, people com- can’t be lactose intolerant,” ment about how good they feel wholesome, 100 percent grass- when they drink it.” fed raw Guernsey A2 milk as said Spencer, laughing. With a strong economy, God intended milk to be,” said His wife’s experience com- pelled him to shift the family “consumers are willing and Herndon. “We’re pretty small dairy’s focus to registered able to spend a little more mon- right now, but we have loyal Guernsey cows about two ey on healthy food, too,” he customers and such positive years ago because the breed said. feedback that we’re optimistic Paradise Grove’s raw milk about the future.” produces milk with only A2 retails for about $6 per gallon. protein. The dairy’s cows graze At their 20-acre fami- It is sold at Broulim’s grocery about six months on grass pas- ly business, Paradise Grove stores in the region, Kesler’s tures. “We farm 60 acres of our A2 Dairy, they raise their six Market in Blackfoot, Wealth of children, ages 3 to 15, on the Health in Idaho Falls, Nature’s own land and lease another 60 Guernsey milk. Nook and Woods Garden in acres,” said Herndon. When the cows begin graz- Michelle, 36, completed her Rexburg, Nel’s Bi-Lo Market first Boston Marathon in April, in Pocatello, and Victor Valley ing on spring grass in May and June, they produce about 300 relying on A2 milk during Market. training. Manwaring Cheese in Rig- pounds of milk per day. “We sell by the half gallon, “For athletes, milk is such a by uses the dairy’s milk to great recovery food, so I’m glad make cheese. It also sells raw so that’s almost 70 half gallons daily,” Herndon said. “We have to be able to drink it again,” she A2 milk. In northern Idaho near Sa- quite a few heifers aging up. said. Paradise Grove’s raw milk, gle, response to Guernsey milk We plan to milk 14 cows in the sold in returnable glass bottles, from Pleasant Meadow Cream- spring of 2019 and will grow is non-homogenized and un- ery has been robust enough for to about 25 milking as a max- pasteurized and meets specifi- owner Paul Herndon and his imum size, probably by late cations of the Idaho State De- family to expand their small 2020.” partment of Agriculture. The unpasteurized, non-ho- dairy. The dairy’s 50 cows are “We broke ground on a new mogenized milk is bottled in milked twice daily, and 800 milking parlor in May and will glass containers and distributed gallons of the A2 milk is bottled build a much larger cow barn at Pilgrim’s Market in Coeur and sold or made into cheese. in 2019,” said Herndon, 50, a d’Alene and at Winter Ridge “We might be expand- certified public accountant who Natural Foods in Sandpoint.
