Dairy Industry

Even without any participants in the Vermont Dairy Festival Scholarship Pageant, Franklin County residents say they look forward to the festival every year.

La organización sin fines de lucro Farm Aid ahora ofrece servicios de salud mental vía telefónica en español para agricultores y trabajadores agrícolas en todo el país, incluyendo a Vermont.

The nonprofit Farm Aid is now offering mental health hotline services in Spanish to farmers and farmworkers across the country, including Vermont.

The Vermont Senate has passed a budget for 2024 that includes $6.9 million in funds for organic dairy farmers. The bill now goes to the House.

Pigs and goats likely catch it too. It's been found in humans' noses in the Southwest — and in the air at airports and at chicken farms in Malaysia.

Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with Vermont's labor commissioner and advocates about child labor practices on dairies in the state.

A Vermont Senate committee has advanced legislation that would give domestic and agricultural workers the right to collectively bargain.

Ben & Jerry’s has released a statement promising to take decisive action when it learns of child labor on dairy farms supplying milk for its products.That's in response to a story from the New York Times about migrant children working in conditions in violation of labor laws across the U.S.

The Legislature has removed a $9.2 million appropriation in emergency aid for organic dairy farmers from legislation updating this year's budget. But lawmakers, the Agency of Agriculture and Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Vermont all say that they're working to get help to farmers.

The FDA says they found consumers "generally understand" that plant-based milk alternatives do not actually contain milk. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., says it's false advertising.