Decrease in dairy farms impacts need for hay crop

Gary Eastman teds second cut hay on his farm in Weathersfield Bow last week. Eastman’s family has owned the farm for 112 years. Photo by Jennifer Hauck/Valley News
This story by John Lippman was published by the Valley News on Aug. 25, 2018.
HARTFORD — Think Vermont agriculture, and the first thing that comes to mind is dairy and maple syrup.
But hay and haylage — those giant white plastic-wrapped marshmallows stuffed with 1,200 pounds of moisture-laden grasses — yielded