Vermont dairy farmers won't get payments on time from a federal milk pricing program. The payments are stalled due to wrangling over federal funding.

Dartmouth senior writer Kirk Kardashian discusses the failing economics of the traditional small dairy farm and we hear about a new book of photographs chronicling farms and farmers in the northeast.

Senator Bernie Sanders is joining colleagues from Maine and Minnesota in calling for a review of minimum federal dairy price supports, given sharply increasing expenses on the farm.

Vermont's Agriculture Secretary and Dairy Policy Administrator talk with VPR's Jane Lindholm about the health of the state's dairy industry.

Agriculture officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are urging consumers to buy local milk and dairy products to support area farmers.

VPR's Jane Lindholm talks with Agriculture Secretary Roger Allbee about the prospects for Vermont's dairy industry in the face of plummeting prices.

Agriculture Secretary Roger Allbee joins us to discuss why prices paid to adiry farmers are particularly low this season. Also, how consumers are deciding whether to pre-buy winter heating fuel. And, as summer theaters open, the etiquette of being an audience member.