date:Nov 22, 2012
ops contend that their members need to survive in the short-term. One-hundred of the states dairies are expected to close in 2012. It's been a bad year for California dairies due to high feed costs, not enough time to recover from the disastrous year of 2009, and the states milk-pricing system.
Many farmers would like the state's 4b pricing formula changed to bring the value of whey to more in line with surrounding states in the federal order system. Read, To (4b) or not to (4b): that is the qu