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Podcast: Real Organic Podcast
Episode: Earl Ransom: Big Dairy Always Intended To Exploit Small Farms
Description: #063: Dairy farmer Earl Ransom, who owns and operates Strafford Creamery along with his wife Amy, recalls the history of the organic milk market in Vermont. Here he shares the good price times, the bad price times, and how corporate interests and ownership came in and engineered the market to their liking. Although Earl and Amy bottle their milk on the farm and sell direct to customers, they are not immune to the market trends that keep prices low and farmers underpaid.Earl Ransom grew up at Strafford Creamery, a 600-acre organic dairy farm that produces 6 types of m...