Dairies grapple with uncertain supplies, ever-tougher regulations
Dark clouds unleash a cold, hard rain as dairy producer Mel Medeiros heads to his freestall barn in central California.
After three years of well-publicized drought, California has received near-normal precipitation this year.
Medeiros welcomes the April rain, but he doesn’t expect it to change the state’s water woes one bit.
“Sometimes it looks like a battle we’ll never win,” says Medeiros, who milks 1,300 registered Holsteins near Laton, 20 miles west of Fresno. “Even if we had enough water, we still have to deal with water-quality issues.” Medeiros’ concerns echo across the Western dairy industry. Whether it’s California, Arizona or Utah, the story is the same, says Utah dairy producer Brad Bateman.
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