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Around a long table — and over bottles of milk and maple cookies — at the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative in St. Albans on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Peter Welch listened to how Congress might support Vermont's dairy industry.
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While many of us reach for butter for our holiday baking and cooking, labor shortages and high demand have pushed the price up of this creamy condiment, and butter inventories are down. That could be good news for farmers, who can use the extra cash to grow, driving milk production up, and butter prices back down.
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Organic dairy farmers are in crisis. Costs are way up for fuel, feed and fertilizer. And without matching increases in the pay price for milk, advocates, officials and farmers themselves are worried they might leave the industry altogether.A lot of those same people are trying to crack this problem, including one organization that wants to use consumer power to get more local organic dairy on supermarket shelves.
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Organic dairy farmers are sounding the alarm: They need help. They're also trying to build a new, regional organic dairy cooperative.
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Forty-one Vermont lawmakers are asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement to drop federal deportation proceedings against 10 migrant farmworkers. The elected officials believe immigration authorities may have targeted the men because of their activism.
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A new lawsuit filed in Vermont’s federal court alleges that the Northeast’s largest dairy cooperative has artificially lowered milk prices for the region’s farmers.
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Vermont’s primary election is coming up. We're one of about a dozen states that holds an open primary. What exactly does this mean, and what’s the history of Vermont’s open primary system? We turn to Vermont Public’s senior political correspondent Bob Kinzel for some of the answers.
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This hour, Vermont Edition discusses where to find some of Vermont's best ice cream, creemees and nondairy ice cream.
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Vermont has hit several record highs for the average price of gas in the past few weeks. It couldn’t come at a worse time for farmers.But there is an upside — dairy farmers are now receiving a much higher price for their milk.
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On May 1, farmworkers and their advocates will join together to call on Hannaford Supermarkets to join the Milk with Dignity program — for the third year in a row.Milk with Dignity is a program created by Migrant Justice, a human rights organization founded and led by immigrant farmworkers in Vermont. It enlists the resources and market power of companies to improve labor and housing conditions on dairy farms.