Green Mountain Blue Cheese, supplier of spare parts to Boucher Farm, since 1999

Early this morning, just after 4:00 a.m. Dan was milking cows in the parlor and noticed that water was not coming out of the hoses used to clean the floor. He identified the problem as a broken pump. We don't keep a spare on hand because they are expensive, and well - highly susceptible to loss. So he took the pump out of the cheeseplant basement to finish chores; after the local supply shop was open, he brought this back to the farm.

The last one on hand at O. C. McCuin's store in Highgate.


It took all of ten minutes to install this new pump and put the "spare" back in the cheeseplant.

In 10 years, this is the 3rd such emergency substitution.