Vaughan, Could be a good time to expand your herd, because I'm sure our
wonderful US processors will simply increase their foreign imports, and
continue to relegate large amounts of US milk to powder, thus lowering our
on-farm price. First 'harsh' day of Winter here--AM temp was 7!
Dick Conklin
Amity Farm
Ft.Ann,NY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vaughan Jones" <leon@wave.co.nz>
To: <leon@wave.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: [Graze-l] Dairy farmers to slaughter cows
>
> From Canadian Animal Net
>
> Dairy farmers to slaughter more cows
> December 11, 2004
> Associated Press
> WASHINGTON -- The U.S. National Milk Producers Federation will,
> according to this story, pay farmers to send nearly 52,000 cows to
> slaughter over the next few months, removing 931 million pounds of
> milk, or 0.55 percent, from the nation's supply, in an effort to keep
> milk prices up.
> The story says this is the second year that the group is paying
> farmers to reduce the amount of milk on the market, one of several
> factors that helped push milk prices to record highs this year,
> following 25-year lows the previous year. The story adds that other
> factors included lower production of Monsanto's growth hormone and
> the banning of livestock from Canada after a case of mad cow disease
> was discovered there last year.
> Chris Galen, the federation's vice president of communications, was
> cited as saying the program was popular among farmers and that
> participants pay a 5-cent assessment on every 100 pounds of milk
> produced to fund the program.
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> Best wishes,
>
> Vaughan Jones
> Hamilton
> New Zealand
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