AUBURNDALE, Wis. (WAOW) -- In a time of struggle for dairy farmers, Auburndale High School and many others are doing what they can to show support.<\/p>\n
The last month and a half has been a lot of trials and tribulations, said Kylie Brown. She's a teacher, mother, and she milks cows every week on her brother's dairy farm.<\/p>\n
She knows in many ways, its just been a stressful time for everybody<\/p>\n
Her brother, Adam has been selling his milk for ten dollars per hundredweight. In order to break even, he should be selling for at least sixteen dollars.<\/p>\n
Mark Cournoyer, FFA Director at Auburndale High School said, Everybody got quarantined, restaurants closed, and the demand for cheese and other dairy products fell by the waist side.<\/p>\n
In the Auburndale School District, families love their farms. When the yearly ride your tractor to school event was canceled this week, they all shared videos online.<\/p>\n
There are 76 dairy farms in the school district. So, the FFA and student leadership team started a dairy drive. <\/p>\n
The response has been unbelievable, said Cournoyer<\/p>\n
They raised $550 dollars for each week of the drive. The school is adding locally-sourced dairy products to the student meals they send home.<\/p>\n
Cournoyer said, This week, theyre going to be getting two blocks of cheese, a gallon of butter, and a gallon of milk.<\/p>\n
They're focusing mainly on cheese because it cuts down the amount of milk on the market by ninety percent. In other words, ten pounds of milk equals one pound of cheese.<\/p>\n
It also has a longer shelf life for families. Cheese is milks step into immortality, said Cournoyer<\/p>\n
As the market fills and prices fall, community members in Auburndale and across Wisconsin are rising to the challenge.<\/p>\n
Cournoyer said, Ive been here for almost twenty years and Ive never seen people step up in the way that they have for our dairy farmers here in central Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
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