Saturday, September 5, 2009
Milk Prices
Our milk prices haven' t improved . I keep sending farm articles to G.T. , Rep . Glenn Thompson. Articles about the crisis many dairy farmers are facing right now. Many farmers are in danger of losing their farms , cows and their home. Most can't afford to pay all their bills. And are hanging on by a thread. Most farmers don't have weeks and months while politicians figure out what to do about the insulting milk prices we are getting. Something has to be done and now , not in a couple of months . Recently my husband and I were interviewed by our local paper . They wanted to do an article about how the low milk prices were affecting us and our farm . They put a picture of us on the front page of the paper. You can view the article by going to www.centredaily.com . I hope people who read the article thought about farmers and what they are going through ,when they bought that gallon of milk at the store. I read in North Carolina there used to be 1300 farms and now there are only 300 . What will we do when there are hardly any dairy farms left ? Buy our milk from China ??
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Didn't the feds do something, the beginning of August? this link
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=4440
has our gov. from Wis. saying the feds were spending 243 million for milk supports. Hope things work out for you and your husband and your farm.
Yeah ,Paul , They were a big help .( NOT ! ) It will maybe raise our price a few cents . And we didn't even start to get this great big raise in price yet ! It didn't hurt. But it isn't the help we desperately need right now. And thank you so much for your kind words ! We keep hanging on by our fingertips. As are so many other farmers .
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