Organic milk prices plummet

Jersey calf. Photo courtesy of Pennie Rand.A once-hot market for organic milk has cooled, and farmers are paying the price.
In the face of a market glut, companies are paying Vermont’s organic dairy farmers less for their product, at a cost of tens thousands of dollars to each farm.
Organic Valley, which buys milk from more than half of Vermont’s roughly 200 organic dairy farms, will be accepting less milk from farmers at its highest price and paying discount rates for additional mil