Statistics surrounding Vermont's dairy industry over the last decade have been bleak: falling milk prices have shuttered many small dairy farms, which have dwindled from 27,000 farms a century ago to about 700 dairies today.
But there is some celebrating going on in 2019, as both the Cabot Creamery Cooperative and the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery mark their 100th anniversaries. Which made us wonder, what was going on in Vermont dairy back in 1919?
Former Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets Roger Albee joins Vermont Edition to chronicle the national and local history around the founding of two dairy co-ops back in 1919, and how much Vermont's dairies have had to adapt to make it to their centennial anniversary in 2019.
Broadcast on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
