Maryland Farm Goes Organic to Get the Higher Price

"More than 100 years ago, a sharecropper scraped together $20,000 to buy 180 acres in Long Green.

Today, his great-grandson is betting that consumers' willingness to pay more for certified organic milk will keep the family farm healthy.

Bobby Prigel now sells his milk to the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association. This year, he's getting $2 a gallon.

With the "certified organic" label on his milk, he would get a higher price -- $2.41 a gallon, he said."

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