ALBANY — In name, an event Wednesday at the state Capitol is being touted as the New York State Yogurt Summit.
But while upstate’s burgeoning yogurt plants may have been the impetus for the open discussion, it will largely focus on a separate industry — dairy farming.
“We want to see how we can use this opportunity to grow the dairy industry now to fuel those yogurt plants, and how can the state government help the dairy farmers,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a public radio interview last week.
The issue, according to Cuomo, is the state’s rapidly expanding yogurt manufacturers have a greater need for milk than the state’s farmers are currently able to produce. Chenango County-based Chobani Greek Yogurt, for example, is expanding in Idaho, in part because the state has more milk available.
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