OFI 1199: Stepping Up For The Community And The Family During Covid | FFA SAE Edition | Caleb Peckham | Killingly High School FFA
Off-Farm Income · Matt Brechwald
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Show Notes
Our guest today is an American Star Finalist in the category of Agricultural Placement, and there is an incredible story that comes along with this nomination.
Caleb Peckham has grown up on his family's small dairy farm in eastern Connecticut. In the latter half of the 2010s, low milk prices were harming dairies all over the United States, but smaller dairies in Connecticut seemed to be getting hit extra hard because they were so much more sensitive to the margins they were operating on. As a response to these prices, Caleb's parents knew that something had to be done so that their family farm could survive. The decision to start direct marketing products through a farm store they called Farm To Table Market in 2018.