BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 5, 2024
The full Houlton Farms milk display at Steaks N’ Stuff in Presque Isle is about to become history, and the brothers who own the store are feeling a loss. Houlton’s family-owned dairy, the only white milk processor and distributor north of the Portland area, will discontinue its milk line by the end of September. The Lincoln family, who’ve owned the company for 43 years, have seen dairy farms around them dwindle and are now only supplied by one farm. With mounting production costs and falling white milk sales, they could no longer suffer the losses. “It’s really hard to lose something local.”