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Dairy Farmers in New England are Suffering

By Naomi Schalit on Friday, November 8, 2002.

Milk prices paid to dairy farmers have plunged to their lowest levels in a quarter century.

The Northeast Dairy Compact expired last year, and the recently passed federal farm bill was designed to help.

But farmers in New England are losing tens of thousands of dollars a month.

And observers say that the situation could mean more lost farmland.

Maine Public Radio's Naomi Schalit reports.

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By Mark Bevis on Friday, November 8, 2002.

New Hampshire has far fewer dairy farms than either Maine or Vermont.

Rob Johnson in executive director of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation.

He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis falling dairy prices have hit the local farm economy just as hard.

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