 Dairy farms were unable to compete with larger, centralized enterprises elsewhere in the state and country.For Lincoln, the industry's death knell came in the 1980s, when the federal government offered to buy out smaller farms in an attempt to raise the price of milk and therefore make the industry more profitable; Lincoln's last dairy closed in 1992.Most of the mills and other industry also closed by the end of the century, though one pallet mill remains in operation.