Presenters: Katie Dotter-Pyle, Co-Owner and Farmer, Cow Comfort Inn Dairy and Creamery Lindsay Reames, Director of Sustainability and External Relations for Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association Nicole Cook, Environmental and Agricultural Faculty Legal Specialist, Agriculture Law Education Initiative Brooks Long, Co-Owner and Farmer, Deliteful Dairy This panel will focus […]
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A Dairy Farmer’s Unlikely Success during the Pandemic
By: Devin Doolan The COVID-19 pandemic has blown Maryland’s dairy industry into uncharted waters, but Brooks Long, a seventh generation dairy farmer in Williamsport, MD, has found success during a time when many local operations are dwindling. He and his wife, Katie, bought their dairy operation in 2009, but it […]
Why Milk Producers had to Dump Milk because of COVID-19
Katie Dotter-Pyle, Co-Owner and Farmer at Cow Comfort Inn Dairy and Creamery, has put together this video explaining why dairy farmers were forced to dump some of the milk they produced as a result of COVID-19 disruptions. Her explanation was so thorough that she is now being interviewed by various […]
ALEI Joins Dairy Risk Management Workshops
By Paul Goeringer With the Maryland dairy economy struggling and previous nutrient management exemptions expiring the first of July, three dairy risk management workshops were held across Maryland. The workshops, held by Maryland Department of Agriculture and the Maryland Crop Insurance Education Program, covered financial risk management information, an update on […]