Farmers pooling losses after pickup trucks unable to reach farms due to snow-covered roads
Dairy farmers in Nova Scotia are pooling their losses after 18 farms had to dump their milk following the Feb. 15 storm.
Pickup trucks were unable to reach the farms due to snow-covered roads. Under normal conditions milk is picked up about every two days.
The affected farms lost a total of 50,000 litres of milk. That is a small percentage of all milk produced in Nova Scotia, but still a financial loss for an individual farm.
The association that represents Nova Scotia dairy farmers has agreed the losses will be absorbed among all producers so that no single farm suffers.
The last time dairy farmers had to dump milk was during White Juan in Feb. 2004.
Source: CBC
