DRYDEN — Late last month, the Northeast's largest organic dairy, Jerry Dell Farm, received a state license and started selling its raw milk based on consumer demand for the non-pasteurized and controversial product.
The Dryden farm, which produces around 30,000 pounds of milk a day from 450 milking cows, has long sold its milk to the Organic Valley Dairy Cooperative, where it is pasteurized and distributed across the country.
They decided to offer its milk in its raw form to local consumers based on the belief that the milk is a more complete food before pasteurization and homogenization, said Jeremy Sherman, who manages the farm with his parents, Vaughn and Sue Sherman, his brother Ryan and their cousins Troy and Ken.
"A lot of people were asking for it, really," Sherman said. "And I personally think that it's better for you, but if we sold it without a license, that would be illegal. The state could shut us down."
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