Dairy Industry

St. Albans dairy workers are back on the job after their union contract was ratified. What does this say about the broader labor movement regionally and nationwide?

The union members secured a contract with higher pay and improved workplace conditions after picketing for nearly two weeks.

Dairy workers at Dairy Farmers of America's St. Albans facility went on strike Friday after contract negotiations broke down.

The settlement requires the Franklin County facility to upgrade its wastewater treatment system and pay a fine.

The Vorsteveld Farm in Panton had applied to add almost 600 cows, increasing their manure production by about 7 million gallons each year.

Vermont is the first state in New England to receive "unaffected" status for its milk supply from the bird flu virus.

Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts said farmers across the state are concerned about federal immigration enforcement after border agents arrested eight migrant farmworkers last month in northwestern Vermont.

The local immigrant farmworker organization Migrant Justice said that the federal government sent 28-year-old Luis Enrique Gomez-Aguilar to Mexico on Monday, and then sent 32-year-old Urillas Sargento and 22-year-old Dani Alvarez-Perez there today.

A Vermont microbiologist, food safety official and dairy farmer explain how raw milk is tested and regulated.

Tommy Hyde's documentary Underdog tells the story of Middlebury farmer and dog musher Doug Butler.