Brazil drought dries up milk production

Like they do every day just after the sun begins to rise, dairy farmers on horses or motorbikes arrive at the biggest dairy cooperative here to drop off the milk from their cows.

But right now times are tough, to say the least, as northeastern Brazil continues to suffer from its worst drought in a half century.

Nobody is being hit harder than the small-scale dairy farmers here in Afranio, as thousands of heads of cattle in the region are dying of starvation with sun-baked pasture lands drying out. It's forced dozens of local dairy farmers to abandon their operations, and threatened the entire local industry here.