Japanese dairy households face crisis over rising feed prices

Japanese dairy households face crisis over rising feed prices

TOKYO, Japan - A dairy farmer in Nasukarasuyama, Tochigi Prefecture, glances at an empty cow barn after he stopped raising milking cows in the face of surging feed prices.

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