Country Life

Two weeks ago Patrick Grimshaw got a call from his local cooperative manager telling him that his milk wouldn’t make it to market.

With the onset of COVID-19 forcing the closure of many restaurants, schools, food services and milk processing plants that would usually purchase his product, the Henderson, New York dairy farmer says he the only place he could send his milk was down the drain.

“I was pretty disgusted,” he says. “We’ve been working tirelessly trying to find our milk a home.”

Since receiving that call, Grimshaw says he’s had to dump about 250,000 pounds of milk. Members of the co-op have contacts from the east coast all the way to Ohio, but Grimshaw says it’s been impossible to get anyone to take their milk in the last two weeks.