Source: Ben Stansell, SALISBURY POST, 1/23/22

Carrie Barnhardt was a sophomore at North Carolina State University in 2009 when her family was forced to sell their milking cows and leave the dairy business. “It was devastating,” Barnhardt said. “I’m not going to sugar coat it. We went from my dad having a full-time job being in the dairy industry to him not making any money on the farm for five years in a row.” Barnhardt’s family was one of many forced out of the industry when the economic recession caused milk prices to plummet.

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