Local small box food vending from local farmers to beat the BIG box agribizz superstore selling agripoisonous products.  Cutting out the middle men would yield a living price for farmers and an affordable food source for consumers.

As organic farmers are forced to sell out to corporate agrichem CAFO dairying, the land and water is destroyed.

Wise investment in these better, less expensive, more eco-friendly farming methods would be helped along by investment in wind, solar, and biogas energy production on the farm.  All that manure and biomass waste is valuable as clen kwh from biogas and organic fertilizer.

I think if a better, more responsible company like Stonyfield wants to prove it really is eco-farmer-friendly, it needs to try to power it's facilities and trucks with farm produced energy.  By co-investing in farm based wind, solar, and biogas.  

Let farmers voluntarily shift to rotational grazing, that's their part in this.  take a risk now, it's your last chance to save your farms.

Stonyfield could franchise and invest in local farmer's market dairy plant/stores.   expanding their business and revenues in a great green wave across the nation.  Local green production lead by a corporation.  It's per unit profit would drop, but it's business would expand, exponentially.

Stonyfield responed, here's may response to their response:

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/7/15040/01451/#comment4

He left out rotational grazing and local processing in dairy stores at farmer's markets.  This would support coop owned year round farmer's markets that could compete with BIG box agriposionous food.  Franchise these operations co-investing with local farmer coops.  The brand name empowering local organic, transportation energy saving, healthy cem-free food.

Another better way to lead the company to growth would be to co-invest with farmers in wind, solar, and biogas energy syustems tio bloster farm income. 

Government should likewise support this with a 10 cent per kwh subsidy payment directly to the farmer for the clean electricty supplied to the grid.

Farmers themselves, with University ag extension services helping out, should shift to the much lower cost, earth friendly, rotational grazing dairying mode.  Even investing in the expensive items, like milking parlour and milk storage equipment with neighbors.

Small cheese making cooperative efforts seem to be profitable too.  With the Stonyfield marketing/franchising power to help these small businesses would get great local and regional outlets for their products.  It would encourage specialized, high quality food.

You guys need a development specialist for this.  you can pay me in Banilla yogurt.  I love that stuff.  I just need a lifetime supply, like Kramer's deal with the coffee company.  Hehey.