Source: Robert Arnason, September 27, 2018
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisconsin — A couple of years ago, Adam Seibel received US$35 per hundredweight for his organic milk — nearly double the price of regular milk.
Then the price fell off a cliff.
This year, Seibel is getting about $19 per cwt. — only a few dollars more than the price paid to conventional dairy farmers in Wisconsin.
“The organic demand was there (until)… a lot of big players came into the market,” said Seibel, who milks 130 cows, with his father and brother, near Bloomer, Wisconsin.
