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One of the best-known brands in grocery stores across New England and beyond has a new tool that aims to drive business to dairy farms that welcome visits. The Vermont-based Cabot Cooperative Creamery, which makes the famous Cabot Cheddar Cheese and other dairy products, is pointing consumers to where they can visit member farms — the ones that are set…

The technology used by Goodrich Family Farm is being lauded as sustainable.

A Vermont dairy farm has won a national award for its environmental practices, which the farmers say should aid the fight against climate change and protect water quality. “It’s been quite challenging,” Chase Goodrich said of the business of dairy farming in recent years. “It’s been a fight for survival, for sure.” With rising supply costs and consumers increasingly...

Dairy farmers across the country have been forced to dump milk they can’t sell into their fields – an awful waste of their hard work, and of valuable food. But a new initiative called Farmers Feeding Families will soon get that surplus milk into the hands of local families that need it most. A national cooperative that represents farms in…

Dairy farmers across the country have been forced to dump milk that they can’t sell, but a new initiative called “Farmers Feeding Families” will soon get milk to those who need it most.

Vermont’s agriculture secretary and its lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives met with farmers Thursday, telling them in a virtual gathering that they are working to help them through the coronavirus crisis.

The coronavirus crisis could cause dairy farms to shut down with producers dealing with declining prices and losses from wholesale accounts like colleges.