Organic milk sales drop with economy

A friend sent me a New York Times article about troubles in the U.S. organic milk business. Turns out people will stop buying organic when money is tight. The graph, pulled from the article, is based on U.S. Department of Agriculture numbers.

Katie Zezima, the author, quoted one Vermont farmer, Ken Preston, describing how a good thing — more demand than he could handle — turned, well, sour. “I probably wouldn’t have gone organic if I knew it would end this way,” he said. Click here for the whole article.