AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili

Camelicious Dairy camels await their turn
in the milking parlor in Dubai, Saudi Arabia.

     A California camel dairy made AgScene about a month ago, notable because the sale of camel milk in this country is illegal, but if it were legal would sell for around $200 a gallon or $1,720 a hundredweight. That is, until all the neighbors started buying their own bactrians and dromedaries. Which may be somewhere on the distant horizon. Last month, European Union health regulators approved the importation of powdered camel milk from the United Arab Emirates. Ulrich Wernery, a veterinarian who works in Dubai, has been touting camels and camel milk for a decade. In 2003, with the backing of Dubai's ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Wernery started his Camelicious dairy enterprise, which today numbers 700 milking camels, producing 5,000 liters of milk per day, or about 105 cwt. Camelicious products, both in liquid and powdered form have been selling in the UAE for about the last four years and now, Wernery says, they're ready to expand into the 27-nation EU. And then maybe Asia and America. AP writer Brian Murphy paid a call on the Camelicious beauties. You can read his report here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/08/21/2417350/dubais-ruler-hopes-to-expand-popularity.html 

Lancaster Farming photo by Anne Harnish

Crowds found plenty to see and do at Penn State's Ag Progress Days.

     Lancaster Farming staffers spent much of last week at Penn State's Ag Progress Days in Rock Springs. The event never fails to entertain and educate. Food and Family Editor Anne Harnish spent a day there, trolling for story ideas and pointing her camera every which way. For the usual generous helping of recipes and more of Anne's Ag Progress Days' photos, see our current print edition, our check out our new web offering here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://lfg.live.mediaspanonline.com/assets/4940613/B03LFWE-082110_1.pdf


     No matter how famous this blog may make me, I will never submit to a Steven Colbert interview. 
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/350636/august-17-2010/better-know-a-lobby---american-meat-institute