Two Maine dairy farms dumping milk as demand drops, others holding steady
Hardship is a way of life for dairy farmers in Maine. Up at the crack of dawn and working all day, they toil in the barns and the fields, hoping to make a small profit.
Strafford Organic Creamery keeps on in Vermont’s troubled dairy industry
Earl Ransom is, according to agricultural census data, part of a tiny demographic group: He’s a black dairy farmer in Vermont.
Would you pay a 50-cent premium for milk from New Hampshire cows?
Encouraged by consumers’ reported willingness to pay more, struggling dairy farmers are renewing pleas to major retailers to sell New Hampshire milk so they can cash in on a new state program.
House to vote on $2 million in dairy farm relief
New Hampshire‘s dairy farmers will soon be one step closer to getting financial relief.
BelGioioso named U.S. dairy industry's Exporter of the Year
BelGioioso Cheese of Wisconsin has been named the U.S. dairy industry’s Exporter of the Year. President Errico Auricchio accepted the award at the Oct. 15 US Dairy Expor Council’s Board of Directors and Annual Membership Meeting in Chicago.
Surveyed Vermonters See Dairy As Key To State's Identity, But Farmers Say It's A Struggle
More than 90% of those surveyed in the new VPR-Vermont PBS Rural Life Survey said the dairy industry is “somewhat important” or “very important” to Vermont, yet this treasured way of life is in serious trouble.
Dairy farming a labor of love, but not financially sustainable for farmers
Sixty-five-year-old David Duprey has been a dairy farmer almost his entire life. It’s the life he has built, the life he knows, and the life he’s not yet ready to give up, even if it’s not the most lucrative.
Price wars, mergers, demutualisations: Hard times for the dairy co-op?
After the sale of New Zealand’s Westland co-op, we take a look at the dairy sector around the world.
Lawmakers hear pros and cons of proposed dairy co-op merger
A proposed merger between a nationwide group and one of Vermont’s oldest independent dairy cooperatives that provides most of the milk used by the state’s iconic ice cream maker, Ben & Jerry’s, was lauded Monday by proponents who say the move would provide the co-op with much needed cash.
An edible token of esteem: The 1,325-pound cheese given to Thomas Jefferson
The president’s foes dubbed it the ‘Mammoth Cheese’
