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Article: Replacing cheese exchange wouldn't help, official says Market forces the key to milk prices, Glickman says
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 14, 1997
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Even if a new and better component for determining milk prices
were substituted for Green Bay's National Cheese Exchange, it would
have little impact on prices dairy farmers receive for their milk,
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said Thursday.
The secretary made the comments in a spirited exchange with Sen.
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) at a hearing of the Senate agriculture
appropriations subcommittee, which is investigating alternatives to
the exchange and its impact on milk prices.
Specter, saying he was being pressured by "irate farmers" in his
state who were experiencing rising costs and plummeting prices,
demanded rapid action.
He even volunteered to make telephone calls himself to ...