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The US milk payment system...How do they control the moooovements?
Dairy Reporter ^ | 8/9/13 | John Geuss

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freemarket; governmentfreefood; rawmilk; socialism
Bottom Line: The Federal Gov't controls the price of milk.
1 posted on 08/15/2013 2:07:01 PM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

Yep, the Milk Unification Board

we have a Soviet-type agriculture system in this country


2 posted on 08/15/2013 2:14:02 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Sopater

This is particularly important to me, because my child is responsible for easily 30% of all milk consumption in the US.


3 posted on 08/15/2013 2:18:03 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Sopater

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.


4 posted on 08/15/2013 2:18:40 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: Sopater

It is possible to obtain raw milk that is outside the system.


5 posted on 08/15/2013 2:22:46 PM PDT by Martin Tell (Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni.)
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To: Martin Tell
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.

6 posted on 08/15/2013 2:28:17 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Sopater
(from the title):" .. How do they control the moooovements?"

They control the TOILET PAPER !

AAaarrrrrrrrggghh !


7 posted on 08/15/2013 2:28:26 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ((Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison))
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To: Martin Tell
It is possible to obtain raw milk that is outside the system.

So I hear...
8 posted on 08/15/2013 2:30:43 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Rodamala
Yep. Good stuff - or as our FRiend Sopater says, "so I have heard..."

I am now making butter with the excess cream I have and cottage cheese with the milk.

9 posted on 08/15/2013 2:33:18 PM PDT by Martin Tell (Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni.)
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To: Sopater; All
If dairy farmers want the federal government to regulate the milk market then they can work with their local, state and federal lawmakers to propose an amendment to the Constitution which grants Congress the specific power to regulate intrastate milk production.

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.

10 posted on 08/15/2013 2:38:37 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Rodamala

Same here. But how do you get raw in NJ?


11 posted on 08/15/2013 2:43:16 PM PDT by free me (Do it.....Sign & Endorse today!!! www.dontfundobamacare.com)
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To: Amendment10
If dairy farmers want the federal government to regulate the milk market then they can work with their local, state and federal lawmakers to propose an amendment to the Constitution which grants Congress the specific power to regulate intrastate milk production.

Seems like an elegant and simple plan.
12 posted on 08/15/2013 2:44:45 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: free me
free me ~:" But how do you get raw in NJ?"

You look for it in Free Pennsylvania You probably never find it in New Jersey..

13 posted on 08/15/2013 2:46:01 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ((Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison))
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To: free me
how do you get raw in NJ?

... grow yer own.
14 posted on 08/15/2013 2:47:02 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

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.


15 posted on 08/15/2013 2:51:10 PM PDT by free me (Do it.....Sign & Endorse today!!! www.dontfundobamacare.com)
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To: Sopater

This stuff was started in the FDR administration and should have been disbanded years ago: let the market decide!


16 posted on 08/15/2013 3:07:44 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: free me

Sorry... I didn’t see the ping. You had asked me how I get Raw Milk in NJ. I moved. Never updated location.


17 posted on 08/17/2013 11:15:44 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

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.


18 posted on 08/17/2013 11:20:26 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

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!


19 posted on 08/19/2013 4:50:02 AM PDT by free me (Do it.....Sign & Endorse today!!! www.dontfundobamacare.com)
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