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Article: Vermont Entrepreneur Touts Water Buffalo for Dairy Industry.

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February 13, 2003
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By Sarah Schweitzer, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 13--SOUTH WOODSTOCK, Vt.--In this state where dairy is legendary, you have your Holsteins and your Jerseys, a brown Swiss here, a Guernsey there. Not the smartest of beasts, not the friendliest, but cute enough in a bovine sort of way, and hearty milk producers all.

Now, though, with milk prices in a slump and dairy farmers going bankrupt, the mooing crowd is facing new competition -- a curiously intelligent bunch with eyes wide as saucers, please-pet-my-bristly-head miens, and milk that one man here swears represents a new chapter for Vermont's dairy industry.

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