AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Some farmers in Maine are asking the state for a lighter hand when it comes to regulation.

Many of those farmers went to the state house on Tuesday to support two bills the legislature is considering. One would lift state licensing and food inspection requirements for small farms. The other would allow farms to sell small amounts of raw milk without a state permit.

Farm owners say regulations from the Maine Department of Agriculture are putting them in a bind. Last week a court ordered Dan Brown to stop selling raw milk and other dairy products from his farm in Blue Hill. Brown is facing a lawsuit from the state agriculture department because he didn't have a license. He says now he's on the verge of bankruptcy.

"In the 6000 times that I've milked this cow that's in question we've never had a health concern with it," he said, addrssing the health concerns the department brought up in its suit.

Based on a true story, “The Sapphires” shows us the early career of Australia’s first all-Aborigine girl group and offers up a tasty sampling of 1960s soul music.

As the newsreel clips at the start of the movie inform us, the year is 1968.  When we first see these two sisters and their cousin performing, they’re covering a country western song at a small-town talent show near the reservation where they live.  As fate would have it, the MC is a displaced, down-on-his luck Irishman named Dave (Chris O’Dowd, of “Bridesmaids” and “Pirate Radio”), who picks up on the girls’ obvious talent and signs on as their manager.