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The complex economics of dairy farming can be confounding to anyone, including dairy farmers themselves. For decades, assorted agriculture experts have been trying to untangle a system that is choking small-scale milk producers in Vermont. Their efforts have done nothing, however, to stem the decline of family dairy farming and the concurrent disappearance of a way of life.

Leave it to an unlikely source — a former Park Avenue art dealer — to unravel the complications and arrive at what appears to be an elegantly simple solution: facilitate a switchover to organic milk production.... Read more

Vermont House bill H.616 aims to allow farmers to sell unlimited quantities of carefully regulated raw milk. But despite a huge number of sponsors, the bill as written will have to wait until next year to reach a full vote.... Read more

That's what you get for pissing off Ben & Jerry's! Recently, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has been getting gallons of flak from free-speech advocates and progressive dairies. Why? Beginning on February 1, the PDA was scheduled to ban dairies from labeling their products as free of rBGH, an artificial growth hormone produced by Missouri-based agri-biz giant Monsanto (See "Ben & Jerry's to Monsanto: Paws Off Our Label!", 1.16.08)... Read more

What could be controversial about a nice, cold glass of milk?... Read more

Next time you pick up a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, check out the backside label: “We oppose Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone,” it begins.... Read more

Picture a 3000-mile-long dinner table spanning the United States. Then imagine all 303 million Americans sitting down to eat. All of them, that is, except for members of Congress and a bunch of lobbyists and farm activists, who are in the kitchen planning our menu.... Read more