High feed cost, High ENERGY cost, an oversupply of milk, translates to low milk prices below the cost of production.
The “voluntary insurance program” that was supposed to be a safety net has failed.
Well the solution should be quite simple, for Vermont.
Cow farts have been documented to be a major contributor to “global warming” Methane is much worse then even C02. Get rid of them.
Dairy Farmers on the edge should just sell or lease their former pastures to the state controlled power companies to build massive solar panel complex’s .
More “green energy” fewer cow farts, lower supply of milk, better prices for the dairy farmers who are left. And perhaps a steady income for those farmers who give up their greenhouse gas producing bovines.
Now doesn’t that sound grand.