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Dairy Farmers Continue to Struggle
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Congress will pay dairy farmers one time emergency aid payments of between $5,000 and $25,000 to help offset low milk prices. But many wonder if it will be enough? Also, a Vermont author looks into the history of female astronauts.VPR News
Deal would offer $350M for struggling dairy farmers
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Lawmakers have announced an agreement to offer $350 million in aid to struggling milk farmers.VPR News
Businesses feel pinch of low milk prices
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It’s fair season in Vermont. The annual celebration of farming is also a place where agriculture companies meet with their customers-dairy farmers. And in this time of low milk prices, many grain companies, equipment dealers and agricultural service businesses also have to change the way they do business.VPR News
Sanders dairy amendment passes Senate
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Farmers could earn an extra $1.50 for every hundred pounds of milk they produce under a plan offered by Senator Bernie Sanders. The Senate added the provision this week to an agriculture appropriations bill.VPR News
Sanders includes help for dairy farmers in agriculture bill
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An agriculture bill that passed the U.S. Senate yesterday included an amendment by Senator Bernie Sanders to lift milk price supports by an estimated $1.50 per hundredweight.VPR News
Sanders says dairy farmers need more help
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Senator Bernie Sanders says more needs to be done to help Vermont’s dairy farmers recover from the economic crisis that they face. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week that it was increasing its support price for cheese and powder milk.VPR News
USDA to raise price supports for dairy farmers
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The federal government threw a life line to dairy farmers across the country this morning. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would increase the support price it pays when buying cheese and powdered milk.VPR News
Cool weather slowing crop growth
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Vermont agriculture leaders say crops have been stunted this year by cool temperatures and relentless rain. They say that nearly all crops are maturing much more slowly this year. And as VPR’s Ross Sneyd reports, that could make the dairy crisis even worse.VPR News
