Senator Brubaker speaks to Southeast PENNSYLVANIA Grazing Conference - (PA Farm News)
February 16, 2008 – 7:02 pmQUARRYVILLE — State Senator Mike Brubaker (R-36) spoke to approximately 200 farmers at the Southeast Pennsylvania Grazing Conference at the Solanco Fairgrounds in Quarryville on February 12. Brubaker was asked to address the production and sale of raw milk and raw milk products in the Commonwealth, a topic he says has been at the heart of several good debates over the past year.
As Chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, I called a hearing last September on the issue of raw milk, Brubaker said, noting that the hearing was a direct result of concerns heard in the statewide listening sessions the Committee held in the spring of 2007. In those sessions, producers talked about the need to develop new, more profitable marketing practices, and noted that producing and selling raw milk and its products could offer that possibility.
Because of the health risks that can and do accompany raw […]
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