National Ag News

A southeast Minnesota organic dairy farmer admits he’s
considering getting out of dairying.

Dale Pangrac of Lewiston tells Brownfield his farm went through a big expansion in 2013, right before milk prices began spiraling down.

“We’re actually getting $10 dollars per-hundredweight less now than when we put the robots in, and that has hurt us. I’m not real optimistic about the future. I know there are things on the horizon that could help, but right now it’s a pretty depressed economy.”

Pangrac has a daughter he farms alongside who would like to keep the dairy farm going.

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