Posted on 08/15/2013 2:07:01 PM PDT by Sopater
Do you know your advanced pricing from your component pricing? In this, the first installment of a four-part special on the US milk payment system, MilkPrice blogger John Geuss explains the huge role played by the US government in controlling the country's supply of fresh milk.
(Excerpt) Read more at dairyreporter.com ...
Yep, the Milk Unification Board
we have a Soviet-type agriculture system in this country
This is particularly important to me, because my child is responsible for easily 30% of all milk consumption in the US.
My wife’s BIL had a dairy farm and was a strong supporter of government subsidies and price controls. After he gave up the farm and spent the next 20 years in the non-subsidized private sector he has come around 180 degrees and absolutely hates the government intervention.
It is possible to obtain raw milk that is outside the system.
Not to mention, it has a longer shelf life, contains natural probiotics, supports good immunity, and man-o-man, you ever skim the cream and put it on a bowl of cornflakes and strawberries?
Good stuff! I go through 2 gallons a week from my local all-Jersey herd.
I am now making butter with the excess cream I have and cottage cheese with the milk.
Otherwise, the states have never granted Congress the specific power, via the Constitution, to regulate, tax and spend for 10th Amendment protected intrastate agricultural production which includes milk production. This is evidenced by the now-ignored excerpt from United States v. Butler.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden (emphasis added)." --United States v. Butler, 1936.
Same here. But how do you get raw in NJ?
You look for it in Free Pennsylvania You probably never find it in New Jersey..
Yes that’s where I get mine, all jersey herd as well. Just was wondering if the other Freeper was making the trip or had some other way of getting it.
This stuff was started in the FDR administration and should have been disbanded years ago: let the market decide!
Sorry... I didn’t see the ping. You had asked me how I get Raw Milk in NJ. I moved. Never updated location.
OH... I see what happened... when I said “all Jersey herd”, I was talking about the breed of dairy cow. Jersey, Guernsey, and Brown Swiss all have a higher butterfat content, than your run of the mill black and white Holstein.
No I clicked on your name to see what state you where in and it showed NJ. Love that raw milk from grass fed jersey cows, it’s so creamy good!
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