KGMI News
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – Skagit county organic dairy farmers are feeling the pressure of low milk prices.
The Seattle Times reports Washington State University’s Skagit County Extension statistics showing a nearly 50% drop in dairy farms between 2003 and 2014.
Meantime, the price of organic milk has tanked in the last year and a half, dropping from the mid 30’s to the high 20’s per hundred weight and adding more pressuring on farms still operating.
Organic dairy farmers say the market is oversupplied as more farms have moved from conventional to organic products, and that consumer preferences have changed.
However, Jay Gordon of the Washington State Dairy Federation says demand should increase to match the increased supply as millennials start to have children.