"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.
You are forgetting that if competition is allowed to grow the monopoly "cooperatives" will not be able to have all those lobbyists, lawyers and public relations consultants. Also there would be an end to all those programs about the government buying milk for schoolkids and the FEMA warehouses being awash in unwanted and unneeded cheese.
These small operations were initially excluded because they would be too much trouble to deal with but that doesn't mean they should be allowed to grow to a point wherein they can actually bring competition to the marketplace.
NJ milk is about a dollar more.
And contrary to popular belief, we have farms. Dairy too.