Let s get real! Dairy farmers deserve new pricing formula
Arden Tewksbury
Time is running out for our family-sized dairy farms! However, the Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act is now resurfacing once again, and the authors, myself and Gerald Carlin, have made some favorable changes in the bill.
For the first time, dairy cooperatives are going to have to pay the same basic formula price to their members as the proprietary handlers have to pay.
No longer will a so-called make allowance be deducted from the basic formula price which has always lowered the price to all dairy farmers.
All buying handlers will take possession of the milk once the milk is pumped into a tanker.