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The Last Dairy Farm

From: Logan Hasson
Length: 10:57

A short portrait of Billy Latta, a North Carolina dairy farmer. Read the full description.

Default-piece-image-2 Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time at Latta Dairy Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The farm is, like most dairy farms in NC, in fairly bad shape—it loses around $50,000 per year. I wanted to get a sense of what it is about farming that keeps people like Billy Latta from moving on to another trade.

This piece was created for an audio documentary class at Duke University.

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Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time at Latta Dairy Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The farm is, like most dairy farms in NC, in fairly bad shape—it loses around $50,000 per year. I wanted to get a sense of what it is about farming that keeps people like Billy Latta from moving on to another trade.

This piece was created for an audio documentary class at Duke University.

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