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Migrant Justice says farmworkers have filed complaints about nine farms through Hannaford’s Speak Up Line, and none of the conditions have been improved as a result.

Employees at the Dairy Farmers of America plant have set March 5 as the day they'll walk off the job if they're unable to reach a tentative agreement.

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.

Last February, ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý’s Anna Van Dine spoke with a farmer who’d suffered a catastrophic barn fire. Almost a year later, she followed up with him to see how things have gone since.

Around a long table � and over bottles of milk and maple cookies � at the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative in St. Albans on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Peter Welch listened to how Congress might support Vermont's dairy industry.

While many of us reach for butter for our holiday baking and cooking, labor shortages and high demand have pushed the price up of this creamy condiment, and butter inventories are down. That could be good news for farmers, who can use the extra cash to grow, driving milk production up, and butter prices back down.

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.

Organic dairy farmers are sounding the alarm: They need help. They're also trying to build a new, regional organic dairy cooperative.

Forty-one Vermont lawmakers are asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement to drop federal deportation proceedings against 10 migrant farmworkers. The elected officials believe immigration authorities may have targeted the men because of their activism.

A new lawsuit filed in Vermont’s federal court alleges that the Northeast’s largest dairy cooperative has artificially lowered milk prices for the region’s farmers.