Dairy Herdshare Told to Cease Operations by Massachusetts Dept. of Agriculture

Former 1st Assistant Attorney General Takes the Case

By Kimberly Hartke

Brigitte Ruthman is 50 years old, a career journalist who now lives on a small 36 acre farm near the Sandisfield State Forest in Massachusetts. As a young girl she became fascinated with farm life, she begged her father to allow her to work on a number of farms in Connecticut, and Vermont. The lessons she learned as a teenage farm hand stayed with her.  As she describes, the farm work “stung her with an infection she couldn’t ignore–a love for cows.”

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