The Lead Up: Mounting Pressure in Dairy Falmouth’s Milk Dump Protest and the Decline of Kentucky’s Dairy Era By the early 1960s, dairy farmers across Kentucky were feeling squeezed. Costs for feed, fuel, labor, and equipment kept rising, while the […]
Falmouth’s Dairy Rise, 1920 to 1960s In the decades after World War I, the hills and pastures of Pendleton County quietly shifted gears. What had long been mixed farms, some cattle, some corn, some milk for the family and a […]
Pendleton County’s hills, once considered more burden than blessing, weren’t always the pastoral gem they are today. By the late 1800s, the land was chewed through by decades of row cropping, mostly tobacco, corn, and wheat. The soil was tired, […]
