Soggy Weather Compounds Misery of Beleaguered Dairy Farmers in Vermont - New York Times
An excellent summary of the dairy farmers' pain in Vermont this year. The photo accompanying the story is also superb.
Painful though it is for so many farmers and other businesses in Vermont's dairy industry, commodity milk production in Vermont is on its way out. Vermont simply cannot compete with other dairy states who have far more efficient farms, primarily because they are larger and the vast tracts of level land make profits more likely in the web of complex, subsidized milk production in the U.S.
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