By Opinion on February 19, 2010
The conventional dairy model is predicated upon surplus production, low prices, farm attrition and lake pollution.
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Posted in Opinion | Tagged Dairy Farmers Working Together, James Maroney, organic milk, Roger Allbee, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Vermont dairy
By Opinion on January 20, 2010
Oversupplying the market with cheap food at their own expense creates no sense of urgency for anyone to help the farmer.
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Posted in Opinion | Tagged Dairy Farmers Working Together, growth management, Vermont dairy farmers
By Press Release on January 1, 2010
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today announced that $5.7 million in emergency support to more than 1,000 Vermont dairy farmers has been released. The assistance, coming at a time when dairy farmers have experienced the lowest prices in 40 years, is part of a $350 million dairy assistance measure sponsored by Sanders.
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Posted in Digger digest | Tagged Dairy crisis, Dairy Farmers Working Together, Sanders, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont dairy farmers, Vermont dairy farming, Vermont economy
By Anne Galloway on September 20, 2009
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 Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, who spoke at a congressional hearing held in St. Albans…
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Posted in Dairy crisis | Tagged contractors, Dairy crisis, Dairy Farmers Working Together, Dean Foods, Department of Justice, Leahy, Sanders, Vermont economy, Vermont news. cpmmon good
By Anne Galloway on September 10, 2009
“You’d have to kind of wake up and think that the planets and stars are all lined up against you. A poor harvest at the same time you have low milk prices and high feed prices – that combination is like three hits in the gut in a row.” -- Bob Parsons, agricultural economist for UVM Extension
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Posted in Dairy crisis | Tagged Common Good, Dairy crisis, Dairy Farmers Working Together, Vermont dairy farmers, Vermont news, Yankee Farm Credit
By Anne Galloway on September 8, 2009
Milk market crash, rise in costs a double whammy
The Clifford Farm in Starksboro
In spite of what some in the industry are calling the worst ever returns on dairying, Eric Clifford is carrying on the family tradition come hell or high water. He’s determined to keep the land his forebears cultivated – all seven generations of them – in farming.
It hasn’t been easy. Since dairy prices plummeted to $11-$12 hundredweight (the…
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Posted in Dairy crisis | Tagged Blue Spruce Farm, Clifford Farm, Common Good, Dairy crisis, Dairy Farmers Working Together, Ryan Brothers Farm, Vermont dairy farming, Vermont Farm Bureau, Vermont news
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