Organic Dairy Profitability in Vermont: Measuring the Impacts of Management and Market Forces on Farm Financial Performance

The total number of operating dairy farms in the US has decreased by 74.1% over the past 25 years, dropping from 155,339 in 1992 to just 40,219 in 2017. As milk prices have fallen and become more volatile, profit margins have tightened, causing farmers to leave the business due to low profitability....

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Main Author: Walsh, Jonathan Patrick
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: ScholarWorks @ UVM 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1003
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2003&context=graddis