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Article: Dairymen unite, fight falling milk prices // Dairy farmers nationwide, including many Lancaster County producers, are joining forces in a unique cooperation venture to cut milk production and increase exports, as a way to stabilize plunging prices.
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- April 29, 2003
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Still suffering from a prolonged spell of very low milk prices,
dairy farmers are taking a historic step toward controlling the
nation's milk supply.
The major milk cooperatives in the country -- which include most
Lancaster County producers among their members -- want to slice a
whopping 4.6 billion pounds of milk annually from the market.
That is expected to boost the price of milk received by farmers by
$1.30 per hundredweight. Since last year, farmers have been getting
less than $11 for every hundred pounds of milk they ship -- not
enough for most to break even.
"There's been depressed milk prices for two years," said Strasburg
resident Jim Barnett, manager of member relations for the ...