Minnesota farmer's tearful video underscores industry woes

 

April 12, 2019



PINE ISLAND, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota dairy farmer frustrated by the industry's rising financial pressures has taken to social media to voice his concerns in an emotional video that's been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

Mark Berg, 26, told the Star Tribune that he posted the six-minute-long Facebook video Monday after arguing with his family about how to save their 200-cow dairy farm in Pine Island.

"Literally just got done arguing with my dad. Just arguing, screaming back and forth. And it never used to be that way, you know, it never did," Berg says in the video. "And it's not our fa...



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