“We are all struggling financially,” she said during a roundtable Monday hosted by US Senator Jeanne Shaheen. “Your product has to go up because there’s no way around it. We have to pass it along.”
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Hodge said while it would be possible to source containers within the US, her farm already has the specific molds and plates that match the containers she orders from Canada. Plus, she said, there’s a lot of time and cost involved in switching to a new provider.
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In addition to tariffs, she said some ingredients are also more expensive than ever, such as cocoa, which has reached a 50-year high, and eggs, as flocks face the strain of bird flu. At a meeting last week with Hannaford supermarkets, a Maine-based chain that distributes pudding from Echo Farm, Hodge said she increased the price of her product to try to keep up with her costs. It will take at least 90 days for those higher prices to appear on the shelf, according to Hodge.
“Those are the things that really are impacting us, but it’s also impacting the dairy industry at large,” she said. “We export a lot of cheese in this country. We export it to Mexico. Those things are going to be impacted.”
Also contributing to the price increase is the hay Hodge said she imports from Canada to feed her herd. Farmers are bracing for the cost of feed imported from Canada to go up.
Roger Noonan owns Middle Branch Farm in New Boston and is the president of the New England Farmers Union. He said organic dairy farmers in New England get most of their high-protein feed from Canada, and said tariffs will have a significant impact.
Noonan said one of the union members in central Vermont, Deep Root Organic Cooperative, includes seven farms in Canada. The cooperative contracts with Whole Foods and other organic vendors.
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“They’re really in a panic right now,” Noonan said, because of tariffs. “They’re not sure if they’re going to be able to buy product from their members in Canada.”
While tariffs are supposed to make domestic products more competitive compared to imports, Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Fruit Farm in Hollis said he’s seen the opposite happen when it comes to some fruits and vegetables from Canada.
“The New England produce terminal in Boston, they quit buying honeycrisp (apples) from us, and they’re buying it from Canada,” said Hardy, who is also the president of the New England Vegetable and Berry Growers Association. He used to sell six to eight pallets to Boston every week.
Hardy said Canadian suppliers sell in the United States because the US dollar is stronger than the Canadian dollar. But, he said, the threat of tariffs led Canadian suppliers to lower their prices to avoid losing sales, undercutting his prices.
“All these tariff threats just ruined the market for US stuff,” he said.
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“The cost to grow stuff in the United States is only going to continue to rise and have more outside pressure competing for our markets,” he added.
Amanda Gokee can be reached at amanda.gokee@globe.com. Follow her @amanda_gokee.
WILTON, N.H. (WHDH) – A woman died in a Wilton, New Hampshire, house fire Wednesday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office.
At 9:08 a.m., Wilton firefighters responded to Burns Hill Road after a caller said their home was filling up with smoke. When they arrived, a single-family home was on fire and they found out two people were still inside on the second floor.
A man and a woman were both taken out of the house by firefighters and taken to Elliott Hospital. The woman was pronounced dead and the man is in serious condition.
Officials have not released the name of the victim at this time.
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At this time, investigators are looking into the cause of the fire and are trying to determine if a power outage in the area played a factor. The fire is not currently considered suspicious.
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Diane Durgin, 67, is accused of shooting at a Black man who inadvertently drove to her property after a prearranged truck part sale, prosecutors said.
A New Hampshire woman is accused of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act four times after she allegedly shot at a man because he was Black, prosecutors said.
Diane Durgin, 67, of Weare, N.H. could face up to a $5,000 fine for each violation she is found to have committed, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a press release Tuesday.
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Durgin is also charged with criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon and attempted first degree assault with a deadly weapon, Michael Garrity, a media representative for the New Hampshire Attorney General, said in an emailed statement to Boston.com.
Durgin had a final pre-trial conference last week, Garrity said.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, Durgin is accused of threatening physical force against the victim, the AG said. Prosecutors asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction barring Durgin from repeating her alleged behavior and from contacting the victim and his family.
During the morning hours of Oct. 20, 2024, the victim claims, he “mistakenly” drove to Durgin’s home after a prearranged purchase of a truck part with a seller online, prosecutors wrote as part of their request for an injunction.
When the man — whom prosecutors identified in court documents as X.G. — arrived, Durgin allegedly stepped out of her home and approached his car with a gun “holstered by her waist,” prosecutors wrote.
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Upon noticing that X.G. was Black, Durgin allegedly “removed her gun and pointed it at X.G.,” prosecutors said in the injunction request.
While X.G. explained that he was lost, Durgin called the victim a “Black mother[expletive],” and threatened to “kill him,” prosecutors allege.
As the victim attempted to drive away, Durgin allegedly took her gun and fired two shots at the fleeing man’s car, missing both times, the AG’s office said.
While on the phone with a dispatcher, Durgin allegedly said she shot the man’s car because the victim is Black, the AG said.
“The guy is Black. And he, he…he says he’s meeting someone here and I think he’s coming here to steal,” Durgin allegedly said.
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Police located X.G. and brought him to the Weare Police Department, stopping along the way at the correct seller’s home to complete the truck part purchase, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
To prove a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, the AG must show that Durgin “interfered or attempted to interfere with the rights of the victim to engage in lawful activities by threatening to engage in or actually engage in physical force or violence, when such actual or threatening conduct was motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability,” prosecutors said.
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