The Dairy Farmers Are in Crisis—and It Could Change Wisconsin Forever
There was a time when the soft glow of barn lights dotted Wisconsin’s rural landscape like stars in a constellation, connecting families who labored into the night milking cows, feeding calves and finishing chores.
Hundreds of those barns are dark now, the cows gone, the hum of milking machines silenced.
"All of our neighbors are done," said Sue Spaulding, a dairy farmer near Shell Lake, in Washburn County.
https://onecountryproject.com/dairy-farmers-are-in-crisis-and-it-could-change-wisconsin-forever/
There was a time when the soft glow of barn lights dotted Wisconsin’s rural landscape like stars in a constellation, connecting families who labored into the night milking cows, feeding calves and finishing chores.
Hundreds of those barns are dark now, the cows gone, the hum of milking machines silenced.
"All of our neighbors are done," said Sue Spaulding, a dairy farmer near Shell Lake, in Washburn County.
https://onecountryproject.com/dairy-farmers-are-in-crisis-and-it-could-change-wisconsin-forever/
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