Dairy farm concerns are shared in Butler
BUTLER TWP — About 30 people turned out on at Butler County Community College to hear what the state's Secretary of Agriculture had to say about Pennsylvania's dairy farms.
But Russell Redding was more interested in hearing their take on the struggling industry.
“Nobody in this room is untouched by what is going on in the dairy industry,” Redding said.
Butler County Commissioner Kim Geyer said before Redding's presentation that the county had 430 dairy farms in the industry's heyday. Now there are fewer than 20, she said.
Geyer hoped the forum with Redding on Monday would help in some way.
“This is a way of bringing everyone together to learn from one another and hear what they're dealing with,” she said.
Read about some of the problems facing the dairy industry in Thursday's Butler Eagle.
