Cows are cute and they're great friends to us — but they're not the best-smelling animals in the world. You will usually know you're approaching a dairy farm long before you actually get there. Not at M&B Dairies in Lecanto, FL, which bottles its milk as M&B Products in Temple Terrace, FL,...
There was a survey a few years ago that showed about 25% of schoolkids think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Clearly doesn't work that way. So how do we get delightful chocolate (and yummy strawberry!) milk? Our friends and M&B Products in Temple Terrace, FL gives us the scoop.
My dear friends invited me to join them and the film crew to see how they create the magic behind the scenes when making an episode for the show Where the Food Comes From. I must say, the crew dazzled me. I always imagined television shows were created by just putting the actor in front of the...
Milk. It does a body good. Got milk? How's your milk moustache holding up these days? Those are all familiar images from past advertising campaigns when milk was unquestionably something everybody used pretty much every day. Or so we thought. Turns out a lot of folks have problems digesting milk....
Last week, you first met remarkable 12-year-old farmer Weston Hannan, who planted his first corn patch when he was 6. Remember Weston was not from a farm family. But he had a true passion for farming from the first time he started following neighbors' tractors on his bicycle when he was 4. You...
Weston Hannan has the same problems and questions as other farmers: Where do I get my seed? How do I market my crop? What's my economic position? The main difference between Weston and other farmers is... he's 12-years-old. Most people aren't thinking much beyond scraping together money for soda...
Corn is one of the world's staple crops, so important it sustains about half the world's population. So why did we wait until Episodes 44 and 45 to talk about it? We wanted to do it in the most impactful place possible. And there's nowhere in America they know more about sweet corn — the kind you...
It's amazing how much corn one little squirrel can eat. That's just one of the occupational hazards now facing Weston Hannan, a 12 year old corn farmer from Wisconsin. While most 12-year-olds are busy watching squirrels run up trees, Weston has to worry about how to keep them out of his fields....
Picture this: A young boy, barely more than a toddler, pedaling his bike chasing tractors in a cornfield. Really! Why would a four-year-old be chasing tractors? The answer may surprise you. Fascination, a total fascination with tractors and growing corn. To take this one step further, would you...
There are three fundamental crops that sustain the world. Wheat and rice are everywhere of course but nothing shows up in more different forms on more different tables than corn. So why did we make 44 episodes of this show before we finally talked about it? Simple: We were waiting to meet the...
