WCSH-TV6 • October 1, 2021
Fourteen organic dairy farms in Maine are trying to figure out how to stay in business after Danone, the owner of Horizon Organic, said it will not renew its contracts with them next August. "If we don't find a solution, we are kind of out of a business," said Jodie Martin, owner of Faithful Venture Farm. Martin said milk from her farm has been under contract with Horizon Organic since 2005. Her Faithful Venture Farm provides the company with 4,000 pounds of milk every other day. The governor said she wrote a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture asking for help. Mills thinks the federal government needs to take action.