Sponsored Project
Betting the Farm
Filmmaker: Co-Directors: Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann
Fiscal Sponsorship Year: 2010
Film Type: Documentary
After being dropped by their main dairy processor, a group of nine Maine organic dairy farmers tries to launch a new milk company, Maine’s Own Organic Milk. But in MOO Milk’s first year, each of the farmers is facing mounting debts and losing money every week. Can the new company succeed, and fast enough to save them?