Pennsylvania provides an out for Dean farmers
In late November, hundreds of dairy farmers received letters from a Minnesota law firm representing the Dean Foods Estate. Those attorneys for the estate laid the claim that milk payments during the 90-day period immediately after Dean’s bankruptcy filing on November 12, 2019, fell under “the Preference Period from the Debtor.”
In short, the unscrupulous attorneys wanted dairy farmers to return a portion of their milk checks. Pay up by December 24, 2020 (Christmas Eve), and they’d only charge 10 cents on the dollar.
Hoard’s Dairyman Notebook blogger Jessica Peters was one farmer who received a letter. She detailed her thoughts in her blog entry, “I’m tired of being treated like this.”