The Milkweed
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Inside the June issue: Dairy Farmers Facing No Good Way Out … Vilsack: U.S. Agriculture “Incredibly Prosperous” … May 2009 Class III Price $9.84 – Class IV $10.14 … USDA Posts New DEIP Export Subsidies, Stirring Global Complaints … USDA Ignored Inquiries to Buy 200 Mil. Lbs. of Surplus Milk Powder … Private U.S. Marketers “Locked Out” of DEIP Powder Sales? DairyAmerica & Fonterra Look Like Prime Beneficiaries … Angry Western Dairy Farmers Pull Back from Milk Dumping Plan … Grupo LALA Paid $435 Million to DFA for NDH … USDA Releases Details for “Dairy Import Assessment Fee” – Dairy Farmers Will Be Mad … Dairy Importers Plotting to Create Own “Qualified Program” … Fonterra’s Financial Position Has Eroded Dramatically … Fonterra Netted 52% on U.S. Sales! …Strong NZ Dollar Hurts NZ Farmers’ Incomes … DOJ “Relooking Foremost/Dean Foods Deal … Did Dean Foods Pay $35 Million or $90 Million for Foremost Farms’ Consumer Products Division? … El Paso Kids Paid Dearly for School Milk in 2007-2008 … Breakdown of El Paso School Milk Costs: Dean Foods Didn’t Pass Through All Milk Cost Reductions … Texas Dairies Use Aquifer Water for Irrigating Alfalfa … Synthetic Sweeteners: Ticking Medical Time Bombs … Scandal Fuels Meltdown in Organic Dairy Industry; Farmers Seek Justice form Obama, USDA; Consumers Headed Back to Court … Connecting the Dots: No U.S. Surplus … Commodity Prices at CME Show No Spark … Dairy Cattle Replacement Prices … Weather and Crops – Look Out for Soybeans Shortages … Time for overdue changes … NAIS: a losing proposition Farmers to USDA Secretary: Ditch NAIS (Is Vilsack Listening?) … and much more!

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