Milk supplier extends contracts for 6 mos. with organic dairy farmers in New York, Vermont

Dec 16, 2021 —

Cattle inside a Lewis County barn. File photo: Natasha Haverty

The company that announced this summer that it would stop buying milk from 89 organic dairy farms in the Northeast next August is offering to extend those contracts another six months. 

Danone, parent company of Horizon Organic, notified state officials this week. 

The 28 farms in Vermont and a total of 61 in New York, Maine, and New Hampshire were expected to lose their contracts at the end of August of next year when Danone would stop buying milk in the region. 

Danone is now giving the farmers the option to extend the contracts to the end of February 2023.