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Wonder if he would consider opening up a Dairy here in Montana too!
No they don't. Otherwise they would be anxious and eager to get rid of Depression era laws. That would also allow one set of rules for everyone...
The depression has been gone 70 years, Mr. Marsh.
No one bothered to tell you?
Good for this guy!
The idea that farmers ae anything other than regular businesses is an assinine american meme.
Good, all farmers can hereby stop paying into the pool that keeps our milk prices artifically high.
BTW, aren't milk price supports the reason Jumpin Jim Jeffords originally sold us out?
I don't care if all government and union thug supported industries go down.
Thank you Mr.Hettinga for your vision and business sense.
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More power to Mr Hettinga. Competition is a good thing. The consumer benefits.
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I have used raw milk, raw butter, cream, etc. off and on. It's still kind of hard to get, even in California, and it's expensive. I would welcome more producers of these kinds of products, as the competition would bring down the price.
Altadena Dairy (So. Cal.) used to sell raw milk products years ago, but I guess they got hassled out of doing so, and now all their stuff is pasteurized.
What I really wish I could get regularly and at a decent price is raw goats' milk. It's a lot harder to get than raw cows' milk.
"Defiant, Mr. Hettinga has taken his battle to the streets. Last year, he slapped about 50 giant stickers on the backs of all his milk tankers and trucks. They read: 'Stop the milk monopolies from raising your milk prices!'"
Go, Man! Go! Glad to see it. Good luck against Dean Foods, though. They are pretty powerful, so he's got quite the battle on his hands.
Milk here in Wisconsin is $2.99 a gallon and up, and I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a cow around here! Thanks again, politicians and government for taxing something to the hilt that should be very, very cheap for me in my state.
Gasoline is at $2.39 a gallon right now. 39-cents of each gallon is a combination of Wisconsin taxes.
'Dairy Gets squeezed by the Feds'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1414369/posts?page=1
In its 85 years of existence, Smith Brothers Dairy in Kent has survived all manner of misfortune and mistakes. There was the Depression, when milk sales plummeted. There were cow-killing floods. There were modern times, when it appeared the old-fashioned idea of fresh milk delivered to the doorstep had died. "None of that compares to this," says Alexis Smith Koester, 60, dairy president and granddaughter of the founder, Ben Smith. "This is the biggest threat we've ever faced." She's talking about the federal government.
Unless I am mistaken the WSJ reporter means by "raw", unprocessed bulk milk. It requires a special license to sell raw milk for human consumption and at last count there were only two dairies selling raw milk in California--one in Fresno and one in Watsonville.
Raw milk requires superior sanitation and animal health. Pasteurized milk can contain large amounts of dead bacteria killed by heat.
Raw milk (for human consumption) producers get very high prices for their milk, from $65 to $100 per cwt. and the demand is much higher than current supply.
Oh! It is to sob uncontrollably.
Am I the only one getting tired of republicans stabbing us in the back?
We milked between 25 and 40 cows,Jerseys,Guernseys and Holsteins at the end.
The worst thing imo that happened to the family farm are subsidies,which of course encourage greater production.
That leads the processors and the haulers to try and force out the smaller producers as it is more profitable to fill a truck with one pick up than to have to travel many miles and get that truckload from 20 smaller pick ups.
Get bigger or get out is the usual option.
Sooner or later there is a fallout as supply outstrips demand as there is a guaranteed market(government).Than the price drops as the gov cuts back the subsidy to discourage production and the market can`t absorb the product without the government buying and stockpiling in the form of cheese.
The farm that is too close to the edge,often debt incurred while expanding at the wrong point of the cycle,goes out of business.
Supplies eventually catch up with demand and the whole thing starts all over again.
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