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Article: Midwest Dairy Farmers Oppose New England Pact for Minimum Milk Price.
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- September 28, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 28 -- MINERAL POINT, Wis. -- Dick Gorder has "got milk," just as the billboards suggest along the highway to his farm. As the owner of 50 cows in the heart of dairyland, he has also got a major problem: the milk business in New England.
Gorder keeps the same routine each day, herding his animals into a milking stall every 12 hours, pumping 1,350 pounds into a steel tank. But his paycheck is anything but predictable, rising and falling with the whims of the milk market. Sometimes, the plant he sells to pays $16 per hundred pounds of milk. Sometimes it's a lot less.
But a wildly fluctuating market isn't ...