"Where is a cow supposed to be? On grass," said Sue Krusenbaum

[donsu]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-061225organic-farms,0,3573506.story?coll=chi-business-hed


Dairy farmers find niche with demand for organic products (so they can survive)


More than 100 cows graze the 200 acres surrounding Sue and Altfrid Krusenbaum's farmhouse and milking parlor.

The Krusenbaums are tireless advocates for organic farming, which they see as a way to preserve family farms.

"Where is a cow supposed to be? On grass," said Sue Krusenbaum, a third-generation organic farmer.

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Dairy farming is at crossroads, Altfrid Krusenbaum said. Some conventional farmers will compete by expanding so they have a greater economy of scale in their operation. Others will go organic.

"The small mom and pop confinement dairies will go out of business," Altfrid Krusenbaum said.

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"We need to learn the lessons that the auto industry has learned," Wedeberg said. "You need to produce something the consumer wants to buy. We say that there is a market out there for people to choose organic products."
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[WhiteTara]

1. count me in for organic n/t