The Milkweed
Dairy’s best marketing info and insight
P.O. Box 10, Brooklyn, WI 53521 · (608) 455-2400      © 2002 - 2007 The Milkweed  all rights reserved

Inside the May issue: Turning Over Some Pieces of the Dairy Puzzle … USDA Secretary Claims Powers to Suspend Ethanol Mandates … April 2008 Class III Price $16.76 – April Class IV $14.65 … Worst Drought of Century Drops NZ Milk output by ?.?% … Global Dairy Trade: Fonterra Milk Powder Auction … Extremely Wet Spring Weather Stalls Upper Midwest Fieldwork; USDA: May 10 Corn Planting 26 Percentage Points Behind Normal … USDA Playing Games with ’08 Corn Crop Estimates … Why Can’t U.S. Dairy Farmers Get World Market Prices? … Monsanto’s Tentacles Threaten Derry Brownfield’s Radio Career … One Cup at a Time: Sugar River Dairy’s Excellent Yogurt … Bio-Fools Rule: Raising Corn for Ethanol Fuel is a Very Dumb Idea … USDA to Promote NAIS with Promotion Check-off Funds … CME Changes Will Reduce Trading Information … Global Pork Industry Collapsing??? … FMMO Class I Sales Down 2.54 Percent in 2008’s First Quarter … Milk Haulers’ Cost Dilemma: Outside Tank-Washing Fees … The Russians ARE Coming (To Buy U.S. Dairy Heifers) … Junction of Agriculture & Antitrust: Leahy … Export Deals & Grain Costs to Tighten U.S. Dairy Scene … and much more!

*** New -- Derry Brownfield Monsanto Program & Podcast Archive ***

HOT ISSUES ON THE FRONT BURNER  (click on issues below):

 USDA Milk Powder Fiasco & OIG Report   

Young Executives Report    Flanigan Report

Wiese Family Bankruptcy rbGH & Human Safety Special Section

Antitrust Lawsuits  Demand Justice on Dairy Antitrust!      DFA Antitrust Update      

Update: rbGH-Free Milk      “ORGANICS”     CME Cheese Pricing

 “Mystery Milk” In Our Ice Cream?      “Pizza Cheese” Update
 

Dairy’s Best Publication!
Now Subscribe Online

The Milkweed reports what’s really happening in the U.S. dairy industry. You can’t afford to miss the real news affecting your bottom line!

    Every month for the past 29 years, The Milkweed has been providing subscribers with facts and insights about events determining prices for dairy commodities and farm milk.  No other dairy paper matches the high-caliber reporting found in The Milkweed.

    Controversial?  Yes!  You’ll find that this paper names names and backs up its reporting with hard-to-find facts.  Over the years, The Milkweed has documented:

• Manipulations of cheese prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

• Financial shenanigans of the largest dairy cooperatives.

• Illegal use of imported Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC) by major food processors (like Kraft Foods) in many consumer dairy products.

• How imports are dragging down prices paid to U.S. dairy farmers.

    You’ll read about trends in milk supplies and demand for dairy products, analysis of dairy animal price trends, the weather … and many other factors that influence milk prices and the dairy farmers’ profitability. 

    The Milkweed is written for the dairy farmer and other interested persons in the dairy industry.  This paper is now in its 27^th year of continuous publication, and counts 7,500+ subscribers.  No advertising revenue influences this publication.

    Get smart about your milk price. Put dairy’s best publication to work for you. Subscribe today.

Home | Subscriptions | May '08 issue | Who We Are | The Milkweed Archives | Issues In Depth | Hall of Shame | Links | Contact Us

This web site is best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution