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Small dairies are spring up around the country as more and more consumers are demanding a local based source for fresher dairy products and produce.  These small dairy farm equipment requirements are opening up new markets for small scale products like this story about Frank Kipe who is making pasteurizing units for small dairies.

Frank Kipe benefits from small dairy farm equipment needs:

His story got picked up by the Associated Press, you can read all about it here

Basically Frank started out to make really expensive, quality, local, ice cream but soon found out that there are quite a few governmental agency requirements that must be met first. None the least of which is that all of his milk would need to be pasteurized first.

Not to be discouraged, being the engineering entrepreneur that Mr. Kipe is, he built a small scale pasteurization machine and sells them over at Micro Dairy Designs LLC.  This is such a heartwarming story to me as there are so many regulations around producing anything of commercial value these days and it is encouraging to see some one who took what could have been a huge disappointment and turned it around to a living. Kudos to Frank Kipe for providing small dairy farm equipment to an industry that needed just the product he developed.

He has been building these micro diary pasteurizing units since 2008 and from the sounds of his customers around the web, these machines are a marvelous tool for the small, local producers of milk and cheese products.

Ever wonder how the milking process works? Here is a video on Bob Whites pasteurization system that gives us a good idea of the whole milking process.

What do  you think about Frank producing these new pasteurizing machines? Leave your comments below, we would love to hear from you.