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Small Dairy Farmers Fear Coming Out of the Barn. By Christopher Fisher. December 22, 2011. ... “But,” she continued, the CDFA just doesn’t know how to deal with small dairy operations, treating one or ...

Brainstorming How to Make Money on a Homestead. Like most owners of small-scale dairy herds, the Aiellos were quick to recognize that the market for milk is diminishing — a trend that started in ...

MELROSE — Isaak Hinnenkamp wasn't going to become a farmer. That's what he said growing up in Melrose on a legacy dairy farm. Hinnenkamp, 34, left for college and stayed away for several years.

In 1969, Vermont had 4,017 dairy farms, most of them small, family-run operations. By 2020, that number had dropped by 84 percent to 636 , with many having consolidated to benefit from economies ...