Organic milk in crisis

As profits vanish, so do dairy farms

By Culinate staff

June 2, 2009

Six months after the New York Times reported on the nation’s problems with milk oversupply, the paper now reports that the organic-milk industry is suffering mightily due to the recession. As the paper noted, “No sector is in direr shape than the $1.3 billion organic milk industry. Farmers nationwide have been told to cut milk production by as much as 20 percent, and many are talking of shutting down.”