Maine's Own Organic Milk, the company better known as MOO Milk that was founded in 2009 after 12 organic dairy farms lost their contract with Hood, announced on Monday that its farmers will pursue individual agreements for the sale of their organic milk, rather than staying together as a team and contracting with one entity.
"Each farmer has their own geographic challenges, set of priorities, and values," MOO Milk CEO Bill Eldridge said in a release announcing the abandonment of a long-term group contract for the majority of its farms. "It simply made sense for each farm to form their own relationships going forward."
In the two months since Eldridge announced MOO Milk would discontinue milk production due to the high likelihood of catastrophic failure of antiquated equipment used by its processor, the company has been working with a variety of businesses to develop a long-term contract for the majority of its farms. Eldridge said at that time it was the company's goal to ensure that all MOO farms had the best options and had arranged a short-term agreement with New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm, whereby the yogurt-maker would purchase all milk produced by MOO farms for at least 90 days.
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