Just
about everybody is feeling the pinch in this recession. But imagine if your
paycheck was cut in half while your expenses stayed the same or even went up. That’s
what’s happened to many dairy farmers. Milk prices have dropped 50 percent in the
last few months.
Vermont Health and
agriculture officials are urging anyone who consumed unpasteurized milk from a
cow on a Charlotte farm that died of rabies earlier this week to consult
with a health care professional.
In
an effort to help poultry producers, the state has purchased a mobile processing
facility, which can be driven from farm to farm to slaughter and process birds.
Milk
prices are projected to fall in the next couple of months just as grain and
fuel costs rise. Experts say it might be difficult to make much money on the
farm this winter.
A Quebec company wants to expand a large-scale Franklin County egg farm that in the past has drawn complaints from
neighbors.
The
state denied a similar expansion plan six years ago.
VPR’s
John Dillon reports.