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Thursday, July 01, 2010

University of Vermont Selling Dairy Herd


HT to John Bunting's blog

Read about it
here

Our milk inspector keeps telling us that dairying is about done in this country. Is he right? All I can tell you is that the whole industry is in a world of pain and this is probably just another symptom.

"Vogelmann said UVM would be the first public institution in the country to shift its dairy research to an “on-farm” model with private partners, and other fiscally strapped research universities are paying close attention. “It’s something we’re pretty excited about,” Vogelmann said. “This is a very challenging time for all land grants. At the heart of the issue is the status of university farms. They’re very expensive to maintain. It takes quite a lot of operational capital just to keep the doors open and the lights on.” "


2 comments:

  1. it's a darn shame what is happening. Darn shame.

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  2. Anne The world is leaving us behind and it doesn't seem to be a slow process.

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