(AP) The company that announced this summer that it would stop buying milk from 89 organic dairy farms in the Northeast next August is offering to extend those contracts another six months.

Danone, parent company of Horizon Organic, notified state officials this week.

The 28 farms in Vermont and a total of 61 in Maine, New Hampshire and New York were expected to lose their contracts at the end of August of next year when Danone would stop buying milk in the region.

Danone is now giving the farmers the option to extend the contracts to the end of February 2023.