On The Farm: Chat with Emily Zweber of Zweber Family Farm
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Chat with Emily Zweber (@ezweber) of Zweber Family Farm.
Nick Weber (Nickel's Notes and @n_web) hosts On The Farm on Twitter (#onthefarm), conversations with people on the farm doing real agriculture work.
Questions and responses
- Take a few tweets to give us background on yourself and the Zweber Family Farm.
- Take a few tweets to give us background on yourself and the Zweber Family Farm.
- Tell us a bit more about the farm. What's dairy farming like in Elko, Minn.?
- Tell us a bit more about the farm. What's dairy farming like in Elko, Minn.?
- So, switching to organic was a marketing and economic decision?
- So, switching to organic was a marketing and economic decision?
- How has organic improved the herd and land health?
- How has organic improved the herd and land health?
- Can you give me an idea of the paperwork involved wit organic farming? I've heard it's exhaustive.
- Can you give me an idea of the paperwork involved wit organic farming? I've heard it's exhaustive.
- Are there any main differences between an organic and 'conventional' dairy?
- Are there any main differences between an organic and 'conventional' dairy?
- Your insights on the way organic dairy farming has provided useful options & helped some to save operations.
- Your insights on the way organic dairy farming has provided useful options & helped some to save operations.
- Can you elaborate on the issues with neighbors because of urban sprawl. Is that a concern?
