Local dairy farmer weighs in on hard butter
CALEB NICKERSON
PONTIAC March 10, 2021
The national news media have focused in on butter over the last month, following anecdotes about how it remains hard at room temperature.
Local UPA rep and dairy farmer Scott Judd explained that the attention kicked off when a popular chef on social media commented on changes in the consistency of her butter.
“As soon as I read it, I asked [my wife] Jennifer, because she does more cooking than I do, did you notice the butter getting harder and she said, ‘Yeah actually I did,’” he said. “It’s not a lot, but it is firmer, it is noticeable.”
That’s when Judd said the discourse on the subject took a left turn. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, senior director at Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, penned . . .
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