Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm

＂In the tradition of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, Kardashian asks whether it is right that family farmers in America should toil so hard, produce a food so wholesome and so popular, and still lose money. His investigation uncovers the hidden forces behind dairy farm consolidation and explains why milk-a staple subject to both government oversight and industry collusion-has proven so tricky to stabilize, even as scores of small dairy farms close＂-- Provided by publisher.

Kirk Kardashian is a senior writer at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a freelance journalist who writes about agriculture, business, and the outdoors. He lives in Woodstock, Vermont with his wife and three children.