Posted by oldtanker on October 03, 2013 at 15:08:13 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: Goodbye Farm Bill posted by mkirsch on October 03, 2013 at 06:55:14:
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That 7 buck milk to the farmer is per hundred weight. That works out to about 12 gallon of milk. At 7 per hundred and last springs grain prices a farmer would loosing money feeding 8 buck a bushel corn to a cow. With the cost of producing feed for the cows in terms of planting and harvesting crops plus the other cost 7 buck a hundred is in long term fatal. The farmer doesn't set the price he gets paid for anything. They tell the farmer how much they will pay.
How to fix this isn't government price supports.
They (the government) allow companies to IMPORT milk. There is a penalty if they import more than allowed but it's cheaper to buy milk from South America and pay the penalty than it is to buy milk here. Companies that make processed cheese and other foods are allowed to import dry milk and to use that. That's why the big food companies are fighting the Country Of Origin Labeling laws. Some consumers and most farmers want these laws regardless of % of imported food product. The food companies don't want it at all. I'm in the camp that says if we produce it imports should only be allowed based on need. If we are producing enough then we don't allow imports. It's only been sense they have allowed milk to be imported that milk prices have been so bad.
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