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Ms Frndy notes dairy trends favor heavier feeding and tighter margins as bills rise. Production only falls when dairy farmers go out of business, she says. She doubts significant cutbacks will occur, yet the government will still purchase about $2 billion in excess dairy products this year.
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Ms. Frndy
Dairy Referendum Aims to Stabilize Milk Prices and Market
National Milk Producers Federation advocates a price support program at 75 percent of parity to steady consumer and farmer prices, finance dairy imports, and export excess production. A nine-member dairy board would oversee quotas and emergency imports, with producer votes determining approval.
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The
National Milk Producers Federation
Federation
NMPF Plan Outlined At Bloomer Dairy Meet
Bloomer area dairy farmers heard outlines of a National Milk Producers Federation plan as an alternative to the current price-support program. The proposal includes a farmer financed promotion program funded by a 5 cent per hundredweight checkoff and a government backed price stabilizing program with a dairy board authority and referenda to choose between paths.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Archie Smith
Center
Susan Fridy
Area Dairy Farmers Monday In
Bloomer
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