As dairy farms wrestle with a deep financial crisis, part of Wisconsin's very culture is at stake. The loss of farms, typically small family-run operations, has been swift and is accelerating.

Hundreds of dairy farmers have gone out of business in 2019. Here are some of their stories.

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin are chronicling the fallout of the economic crisis affecting the state's dairy industry. We are writing about the legacy of farms that were lost this year.