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Too much supply and too little demand in a recession have caught up with the fast-growing organic milk industry, dealing a harsh blow to Maine producers. Bangor Daily News reported eight of the 72 farms in Maine producing organic milk have been told their contracts won't be renewed. Other organic producers have been told they must cut their production by 15 percent. “They told us they have too much milk,” organic dairyman Vaughn Chase of Chase Farms in Mapleton said. “It is the worst possible news at the worst possible time.”