Local police, advocates work to protect Vermont’s Mexican migrant workers from harassment
Middlebury Police Chief Hanley: “Everybody in our community is a member of that community, and we don’t care where they come from.”
Santiz Cruz will be buried Monday in Chiapas
One Vermont dairy farmer raised $4,000 in donations from the farming community toward the cost of sending the body to Mexico.
Your organic food: Made in China Part 2. Fresh from the Far East
Frontier Natural Products Co-op and United Natural Foods, Inc., are importing organic food from China.
Your organic food: Made in China Part 1. Why you should give a hill of beans about it
A surprising number of organic products available at co-ops and natural food stores in Vermont now come from China.
Keep Local Farms lands two contracts
Ten cents of every pint of milk students at the University of Vermont and Harvard University buy will be passed on to dairy farmers. UVM launched its Keep Local Farms fund-raising campaign on Monday. Harvard joined the program on Oct. 19. The slight price hike is part of a fund-raising and marketing campaign to raise [...]
Break-even milk prices won’t be enough to save some of Vermont’s dairy farms
Milk prices are going up in December, and the federal government has said it will purchase $60 million worth of cheese and make $290 million in direct payments to the nation’s dairy farmers.
Got too much milk?
Nation’s largest dairy coop floats supply management plan Vermont coops weigh programs to rein in milk supply Raw milk is a highly perishable product. Once it leaves the cow’s udder, it has to be processed into bottled milk, cheese, butter or yogurt within a few days. That fact makes dairy farmers more vulnerable to the [...]
Antitrust division to probe complaints about Dean Foods’ alleged monopolistic practices
Justice official says “competition isn’t well served when one player controls 70 percent of the market” Senators say dairy industry consolidation hurting farmers A lack of competition may allow dominant dairy processors to “exert power” and depress the price farmers receive for raw milk, according to Christine Varney, the assistant attorney general for the Antitrust [...]
On the dairy beat
Fair dairy? State hopes consumers will pay more for milk, make donations to farmers The cost of production calculus Dairy farmers tough out costliest downturn Economist says state could lose 150 farms by next summer Vermont’s dairy industry blip on national radar Communities where dairy is king take a hit economically Losses driving farms deep [...]
Fair dairy?
State hopes consumers will pay more for milk, make donations to farmers Got milk? Got a little extra money to pay for it? And by the way, wanna donate cash for a T-shirt? Those are the questions Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture is putting to the public on the new Web site it’s unveiling today at [...]
