The Last Dairy Farm (Audio Only)

A short portrait of Billy Latta, a North Carolina dairy farmer.
Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time at Latta Dairy Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The farm is, like most dairy farms in NC, in fairly bad shape—it loses around $50,000 per year. I wanted to get a sense of what it is about farming that keeps people like Billy Latta from moving on to another trade.

(for best audio quality, please visit http://www.prx.org/pieces/42257-the-last-dairy-farm )

This piece was created for an audio documentary class at Duke University.

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