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michigan | So help me understand a paragraph I just read.. "Indeed, absent some agreement, dairy policy will revert next month to a 1949 law that prescribes a post-World War II vision of a more muscular government buying up dairy products directly to boost prices. The Agriculture Department would pay producers $38.54 per hundredweight compared to a market now running near $16.22. The result would be havoc — and many estimate a doubling in consumer prices for milk.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/farm-bill-talks-stumble-milk-...
So I dont want to be paid 38 cwt, because.....hmmmm....demand would get hurt or? My how I would like to be finally compensated for my 365 day a year comitment to my dairy. I dont know about you, but 38cwt seems well deserved | |
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