Lou Brown stands next to some dairy cattle on the New Bremen-area farm he operates with his brother Alan, his son Tony and Alan Brown's son Mitchell. Brown said he has had to tighten his belt due to low milk prices that have put some area dairy farms out of business.
Ten dairy farms in Mercer and Auglaize counties have either closed or liquidated all or a significant portion of their herds over the past year due to low milk prices, local agriculture officials say. [
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