Milk glut is hurting dairy farmers

According to Kansas dairy farmers, a glut of milk and fewer sales to other countries have them concerned about their future. An oversupply of milk happens every spring, but dairy farmer Orville Miller said this year is even worse."It's absolutely stressful," said Miller. "When you get up in the morning and work hard all day and know you're losing money, that's tough on the mind after awhile."Miller said the price of milk is down about 40% from two to three years ago, and more product needs to be sold."The export market is not as good as it typically is," said Miller. "We're shipping about one out of seven truck loads somewhere out of the country right now, but we need to get those exports up."Miller said some years are lucrative, while others, like this year, just aren't."There's years where you lose equity and you borrow money every month," said Miller. "It's going to be one of those years probably, but it'll get better."He said the country can fix this problem by exporting more milk to other countries and slowing milk production in the United States.