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The Conversation

The Conversation: Hawaiʻi dairy business; Maui transplant story

By Catherine Cruz,
Maddie Bender
Published September 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM HST
Some of Cloverleaf Dairy's milk is packaged under the Meadow Gold brand. To ensure it's 100% local milk, look for the Island Fresh logo.
Cloverleaf Dairy
Some of Cloverleaf Dairy's milk is packaged under the Meadow Gold brand. To ensure its 100% local milk, look for the Island Fresh logo.

Audio will be added after the show. The Conversation airs weekdays from 11 a.m. to noon on HPR-1.

  • Farm Link Hawaiʻi's Claire Sullivan on the recent announcement that it will be carrying fresh milk from Hawaiʻi’s last dairy farm, Cloverleaf Dairy, on Hawaiʻi Island.
  • Bahman Sadeghi, who bought the Meadow Gold processing plant on Hawaiʻi Island five years ago, discusses the history of Hawaiʻi's dairy business.
  • HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on a street medicine program that is looking to expand on the island of Hawai'i | Full Story
  • Transplant patient Michelle Ankele and her two doctors, Anil Trindade and Konrad Hoetzenecker, share the story of Ankele's lung transplant | Read the case report
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Catherine Cruz is the host of The Conversation. Contact her at ccruz@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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