SOMERSET -- With the dairy industry suffering through one of its toughest economic times in history, two brothers are bravely forging ahead with expansion of their historic family farm, putting the final touches on a new $1.1 million barn and planning to nearly double their herd. Our farm has to become more efficient. We have to better use our assets in order to become more profitable and be better able to compete in tighter margins," explained Ben Atwater, who, along with younger brother Seth, owns and operates Atwater Farms on Lower Lake Road.
The national dairy industry has been transformed over the past 20 years: Mega-dairies with tens of thousands of cows ship milk from California to Florida, while the processing side of the industry has consolidated and specialized, leaving farmers with fewer and fewer options. Here in Maine, however, experts say that small family farms remain the backbone of the industry.
The dairy industry is counting on it, thanks in part to a $200 million ad campaign that confidently touts studies suggesting a connection between consuming dairy products and losing weight. But dieters might want to delay sporting milk mustaches for the moment.
...Nuanced or not, the claims seemed like good news to Pam Syms, a 50-year-old Concord, N.H., woman wh...
was not a good year for the meat, dairy and egg industries. In January, ABC News provided extensive coverage of cow abuse by the dairy industry. The BP oil spill in April called attention to an even larger Gulf "dead zone" caused by the massive amounts of animal waste dumped every day by the Mississippi River. A month later, a U.N. report urged a global shift towards a vegan diet to reduce world hunger and climate change.
Milk, that most wholesome of liquids, can produce the sourest litigation. A class action lawsuit in federal court in Vermont accuses the Kansas City-based Dairy Farmers of America and other entities of causing a "crisis in the dairy industry in the Northeastern United States" by restraining competition in the dairy market. A similar multidistrict case is pending in Tennessee.
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A tax on chocolate milk? Preposterous, the dairy industry says. But there it is, tucked inside a 61-page document released by the Senate Finance Committee, which is trying to find ways to pay for health care reform and discourage childhood obesity.
... to have any legs at all," Grassley said in a news conference with farm reporters. Dairy marketing ag...
The organic dairy industry was thriving when Allen and Jean Moody bought a 200-acre Wisconsin dairy farm in 2006 and joined the ranks of farmers churning out milk raised without growth hormones, pesticides or other chemicals. Three years later, the good days are gone and the Moodys aren't alone in wanting out.
...The soured market has been particularly bad news for Moody, 53, and his 51-year-old wife, who put t...
CLINTON - The dairy industry in Maine is a house of cards, eight of the state's 22 organic milk producers that ship to Hood said Saturday as they gathered in farmer Richard Lary's kitchen. If dairy farms go under, the effects will be felt by veterinarians, grain dealers, seed companies, equipment and fuel dealers, and processors, which in turn will affect conventional farmers' ability to access these services.
This has not been a good year for the meat, dairy and egg industries. In January, ABC News provided extensive coverage of cow abuse by the dairy industry. The BP oil spill in April called attention to an even larger Gulf "dead zone" caused by the massive amounts of animal waste dumped every day by the Mississippi river. A month later, a U.N. report urged a global shift towards a vegan diet to reduce world hunger and climate change.
AUGUSTA - Last week, Maine dairy farmers learned that industry experts were predicting further drops in milk prices. This week, lawmakers discussed how to make cuts to the state program that helps dairy farmers through such tough times. The move to cut the subsidies paid to farmers when prices fall below a set monthly price was proposed by the Legislature's Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee to help balance Maine's budget for this fiscal year.
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