Dave Buck of Guardians Farm in Southbury admits that being a dairy farmer is not easy, as high operating costs and inflation make turning a profit more difficult, but he said dairy farming is a labor ...
Then, in November 2023, Navy veteran and agricultural business advisor for the Connecticut Small Business Development Center Murray Gates adopted the old dairy farm in Baltic and began rekindling its ...
“Some of the largest dairy farms in the U.S. have 10,000 or more cows,” Buck said. “We’re a small operation. We’re like what dairy farms used to be decades ago. People come to our farm because our ...