“These are the times that try men's souls.” | nkline, the federal dairy buyout was in the Food Security Act of 1985. Those cows were sent to slaughter from 1986-87. That was 33 years ago. How can that be affecting the expansion of dairy's today? Yes there was a buyout in 2003-2010' called the CWT Cooperatives Working Together. That was fully funded by the dairymen themselves by a assessment from their milk check. A lot of dairymen were forced to pay in to it without their blessing if they belonged to a Coop whose board of directors voted for it. If you sold milk to a independent milk plant you had your own choice whether to fund it. You had to pay into it if you wanted to participate in buyout. |
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