To the Editor:
Recently an area dairy farmer committed suicide due to the horrendously low milk prices that farmers are receiving. He just couldn’t take it any longer.
This past week my friend’s son attempted to do the same. They are on the brink of selling their cows, their farm, and his universe. Luckily his mother heard a noise and went to investigate. She found him slumped over the sink. The noise she heard was a plastic cup that he had dropped. She made him throw up and got him to the hospital. The doc said that she probably saved his life.
How many more lives have to be destroyed before our elected officials acknowledge that there is a dairy crisis and step up to the plate to fix it?
People just don’t get it that a farmer is so connected to his land and his cows that when they are forced to sell out, it is just like a death in the family. Unfortunately, that is just what it is becoming.
Gretchen Maine, Waterville