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Hawaii's last dairy farm aims to revive local milk production

A farmer on the island of Hawaii is on a mission to keep the island's 1.5 million people supplied with locally-produced milk

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Some of the 500-cow herd out on the farm's grazing platform.
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Some of the 500-cow herd out on the farm's grazing platform.

Back in the 1950s, the number of dairy farms on the island of Hawaii was around 80. Numbers have fallen drastically since then and Bahman Sadeghi is the owner of the island's last remaining dairy farm....

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