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Article: Say cheese: A UF researcher says Florida is ideal for raising water buffalo, whose milk is in big demand for mozzarella. (Agriculture).(University of Florida)(Brief Article)
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- May 1, 2002
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The money in milk these days is in cheese -- gourmet mozzarella made from the milk of water buffalo, says Hugh Popenoe, a professor with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. While regular cows milk sells for 12 to 1.5 cents a pound wholesale, water buffalo milk, with just 8% butterfat, brings in 75 cents a pound from cheese makers desperate for it. "It's the most expensive cheese in the store ($15 to $20 a pound) and takes only three days to make," says Popenoe. "It's where all the money is."
America imports about 90,000 pounds of buffalo mozzarella from Italy annually but could make more of it domestically. Conditions in ...
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