How four family dairy farms in Wisconsin are fighting to survive

Wisconsin is losing dairy farms at a rapid rate, driven out by milk prices that often don`t even cover expenses. A cherished way of life, rich in family traditions, is at stake along with a livelihood that’s supported rural Wisconsin for more than a century.

Those dairy farmers who remain slash expenses, take off-farm jobs, go deeper in debt and endure financial, physical and emotional strain.

As part of a yearlong project, journalists from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin are following dairy farms of different sizes at a time when the state`s rural landscape and cultural identity could be altered permanently....

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Ken Notes: I am begging for legislation that levels the playing field between family farms and CAFO`s. I believe digestion and heating effluent does just that plus it cleans our water and produces energy.