Some dairy producers and farmer cooperatives used a Senate hearing Wednesday to call for changes to the federal milk pricing system, while an independent processor said the system should be disbanded.
A bipartisan push has begun, being led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, to restore the way the milk price is set for dairy farmers to the “higher of” Class I pricing formula. Gillibrand, who is also the ...
Faced with chronically low milk prices, some Pennsylvania dairy farmers are calling for reforms in the way those prices are set. The U.S. system for determining what dairy farmers are paid for their ...
Milk has rarely been out of the headlines this year, from bird flu in dairy cattle to recalls over cleaning chemicals and infant formula investigations. You are being asked to track virology, federal ...
For much of this year, Charlie Finton sold milk for just over $17 per 100 pounds, which is below his breakeven point. “When it comes down to it, that's our income,” the New Philadelphia dairy farmer ...
Thanks to my good friend Manuel Garcia Jr., I got a head’s up about a documentary titled “The Milk System” that arrived with zero publicity: Everything you talk about, Louis N. Proyect, is here: the ...