Dairy milks any business it can get As sales decline during pandemic, Surfing Goat Dairy fights to stay afloat (Maui)

https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2020/07/dairy-milks-any-business-it-can-get/

Last July, Thomas Kafsack and his wife Eva-Maria were hoping to retire and sell the Upcountry goat dairy they’d run for nearly 20 years.

Instead, they’re still making cheese, have put retirement on hold and have sold nearly half the herd in hopes of keeping the Surfing Goat Dairy alive through the pandemic.

“We are hoping we can survive until the tourists are coming back,” Kafsack said Sunday.

Surfing Goat Dairy’s sales during the second quarter of this year have declined 90.2 percent, according to a news release last week. The number of visitors to the farm has plunged from 16,780 in the second quarter of last year to 49 this year — none in April, 12 in May and 37 in June.

CLICK LINK ABOVE FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE