Less than 1% of U.S. farmland is certified organic but it's what consumers want. Last year, U.S. organic food sales grew 5.2% ...

Small family operated dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business as large confined animal operations with thousands of animals lined up in assembly-line fashion ...

It would seem to be a good time to be an organic dairy farmer. Thanks to consumer demand for healthy, environmentally friendly, and ethically produced products, US sales of organic food climbed to $60 ...

Lilac Ridge Farm in Brattleboro is one of the 150 or so certified organic dairy farms left in the state of Vermont. Organic dairy farmers are in crisis. Costs are way up for fuel, feed and fertilizer.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Annie Watson is an organic dairy farmer. She’s run Sheepscot Valley Farm in ...

As many as 25 to 30 of the state’s 139 organic dairy farms are at risk of going out of business in the first half of 2023 without “swift and substantial intervention.” File photo by Glenn ...

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PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Straus Family Creamery, a certified organic creamery whose mission is to sustain family farms and revitalize rural communities, organized the newly formed group ...

Eleven organic dairy farms in Vermont closed in 2021. The next year, 18 more followed. And this year, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont expects to lose another 28 farms. That data — ...

WHITINGHAM — Long- and short-term solutions to the current crises facing both Vermont and the country’s organic dairy farms were outlined by Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., Friday at the picturesque and wind ...

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