The global corporation headquartered in France had purchased WhiteWave - including Silk plant-based and Horizon Organic milk - from the former Dean Foods five years ago.
Danone confirmed it will drop 89 Northeast Horizon Organic dairy farms by this time next year. Nearly 90 organic dairy farms in the Northeast, including 28 in Vermont, will lose their contracts with an organic dairy company when it stops buying milk in the region by the end of August of. The local hardware store closes and you have a Super Walmart. By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, August 27,2021 DEERFIELD, Mass.
“Consolidation seems to be the name of the game. This was 298 per cow and 2. Feed is the single largest expense for organic dairy farmers in the Northeast, averaging 44 of the annual operating expenses. All farms included in the study received the majority of their income from milk sales, but many farms have. Organic farms earned on average 158,075 from milk sales. “Having 10 farms milking 50 cows is hugely better for local economies than one 500-cow farm,” he said. It does not include any organic dairy farms. Mehuren said that he understood the trends in the dairy industry but that he didn’t think they were an improvement. “This is about 14 family farms in Maine and 89 family farms across the Northeast, and they are all, every single one of them, important.”Īt Faithful Venture Farm, while cleaning out the parlor between milkings, Mr. “I really want to emphasize that this isn’t about one farm or my family’s farm,” she said. That farm, now run by her brother, is among those being dropped by Horizon. England showed that, in this region, most dairy pro- duction systems (under both conventional and organic management) allow. Beal understands organic dairy farms because she grew up on one. Beal asked Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, about this when she and her counterparts in other Northeast states met with him twice, via video, to discuss Horizon canceling the contracts.
“I feel if the playing field were level, our farmers could certainly hold their own.” Northeast organic dairy farmers are considering forming a regional cooperative to market local milk as an alternative to the now-one existing milk cooperative in the region, CROPP Cooperative. WebAbout the farm McCauley Family Farm, a Certified Organic farm nestled. “It creates an unlevel playing field for our farmers,” Ms.
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