The Ballards at their stand at the Boise Farmers Market
Idaho has become a Big Cheese state. Milk has surpassed the potato as our number one agricultural commodity and Idaho is now the second largest cheese producer in America. That's a lot of cheese. But Big Cheese—with it's factory farms and mechanized production—isn't always good to the small farmer. Guy Hand visits a small dairy near Gooding with an award winning solution to the modern agricultural imperative to "get big or get out."
