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As profit margins narrow and the coronavirus pandemic strains the food supply chain, Cliff Wallace from Lawrence County Farm Bureau said he and his colleagues need help coping with the psychological burden.

The coronavirus pandemic hit just as many in the business felt their fortunes were finally beginning to turn.

There are people working on the supply chain issues so dairy farmers will no longer have to dump their milk down a drain.

Agriculture has been described as Pennsylvania’s number one industry because it has such an economic and cultural impact on the state. So, any change in policy, the economy, weather and climate or consumer tastes affects Pennsylvanians.

A new series of online courses aims to give dairy producers more tools for success.

The company supplies milk for its own brands, like Dairy Pure, Meadow Gold and TruMoo, as well as store brands. One big blow came last year, when Walmart opened its own milk processing plant in Indiana.

Farmers like to buy semen from top-ranked bulls, and the companies keep breeding even better bulls, mating their top performers with the most productive cows. “They keep selecting the same families over and over again,” Chad Dechow says.