Pandemic food lesson: Match struggling farms with hungry people
Rick Osofsky walks up to his cows grazing peacefully in the lush field next to the milking barn. He strokes their heads affectionately. This one’s Bella. That one’s Lemon Drop. He knows almost all of his cows by name – and there are around 200 of them.
On the other side of the farm, refrigerated trucks idle outside the manufacturing facilities, where milk is bottled or cultured for yogurt. Farmhands load up the trucks with plastic-wrapped boxes of yogurt, ready to be driven across the country to states as far as California.
It has been a little over a year since the pandemic began, and Ronnybrook Farm Dairy in Ancramdale, New York – against all expectations – is doing better than ever.
Mr. Osofsky is a third-generation farmer and co-owner of Ronnybrook, which
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