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Multiple Vermont organic dairy farmers, some through tears, asked lawmakers on Thursday for a one-time $9.2 million appropriation to keep them in business. The industry is currently experiencing high costs of production and a stagnant pay price.
Officials at the Federal Reserve have signaled in recent days that they may raise interest rates again, continuing a trend of rate hikes intended to cool the economy and curb inflation. That typically means higher mortgage rates, and a corresponding drop in home prices several factors among many impacting the housing market.
Organic dairy farmers are in crisis. Costs are way up for fuel, feed and fertilizer. And without matching increases in the pay price for milk, advocates, officials and farmers themselves are worried they might leave the industry altogether.A lot of those same people are trying to crack this problem, including one organization that wants to use consumer power to get more local organic dairy on supermarket shelves.