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.
Desperate times for dairy farmers
Economist: 150 farms could go out by next summer You’ve read the headlines. The dairy industry is in crisis. Milk prices have fallen to 30-year lows. Worldwide demand for cheese and powdered milk has plummeted because of the global recession. Farmers are eating into their equity to survive. But how bad is it, really? If [...]
