consumption is down just 15% in a decade dairy farms are disappearing they're down by half since 2000. contessa brewer is live from smithfielducky with this story. >>> here they started off in the spring with 80 cows, then in march they got a letter from their buyer, dean foods, canceling their contract as of today. more than 100 farmers got the same letter. here's the problem, without another buyer lined up the family started selling off their cows this morning, the barn is half empty, they only have 37 cows left when you look at the problem that this means for the family, we know dean foods alerted the family in march. they said walmart was biuilding milk processing plant in ft. wayne, indiana so walmart will begin bottling its own milk, getting from three other nearby co-ops. other big grocers are already in the processing game, like kroger, which has a plant near lexington, kentucky, and the family was hopeful it would become the new buyer so far, no luck. >> we didn't do anything wrong it wasn't bad management it wasn't not managing our finances correctly or cattle correctly. we produced good, quality milk here milk tha