EAST COAST ORGANIC MILK CLOSES ITS DOORS

Source: AtlanticFarmer.com
East Coast Organic Milk is closing after only a year and a half on the shelves. Despite the consumer uptake for the local product, the cooperative found it was unable to compete with products from outside the province that were being sold cheaper than East Coast’s cost of production could match. Only two dairy farms were supplying milk to Cook’s Dairy in Yarmouth where East Coast Organic Milk was being processed. They were unable to grow sales fast enough to cover the cost structure according to Frazer Hunter, whose family owns one of the two farms. Provincial regulations, added to the mounting burden of distribution and shipping costs, were the blows that forced the decision to stop production.