dairy

"98% of all farms in New York are family owned. I think in order to keep that number so high...the milk prices definitely need to go up."

"The plan is for us to continue to get dairy into the county through the food pantries and other food programs as long as the donations keep flowing."

“It’s very frustrating. We have excess milk but we can’t get it to people who are in need at this time.”

The New York Farm Bureau has asked the state, in recent days, to ramp up testing for COVID-19 in rural areas of the state, particularly at farms.

"Right now, we are dumping on average one trailer load a day."

Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Secretary says several grant recipients were taken by surprise that they had to pay contracted workers prevailing wages.

Whey Street Dairy received the 2019 State Agricultural Environmental Management Award.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is touring upstate New York on Wednesday.

The New York Farm Bureau said farmers need more workers and it wants the President to consider an expansion of a visa program.

Pennsylvania's dairy industry woes are finding their way to a national stage. Milk sales are down. And in Pennsylvania and other major dairy states, the situation is getting difficult for farmers.