(Pete Hardin's milk marketing report)
Read The Milkweed
"Hardin has been on toh of the brewing Eastern
financial mess for more than a year, but his
warnings have gone unnoticed.
There’s a new dairy publication with the guts to tell
you what’s going on inside the milk business . , . The
Milkweed.
The Milkweed is a m jnthly report about milk
marketing for the dairy farmer. With all the assets you
have invested in your dairy bvj.ness . . . you’d better
know what’s going on.
Pete Hardin edits and publishes The Milkweed.
Hardin is a pro at covering milk marketing. You’ve
read his articles in The Holstein-World, The Farm
Journal, Hoard’s Dairyman, Ag-Review and American
Agriculturist. Hardin calls spades just that in The
Milkweed. Only dairy farmers who want straight talk
should subscribe.
Who reads The Milkweed?A thousand smart dairy
farmers and dairy leaders throughout the country.
They rely on The Milkweed as the top source for news
inside the dairy industry.
The directors of Inter-State Milk Producers
Cooperative, NEDCO and LeHigh Valley Farmers all
read The Milkweed. Why/ They have to know what’s
going on. And so do you.
Hardin has been the journalist with the guis and
sources to tell you what’s really going on inside Eastern
Milk Producers. Month after month, The Milkweed
has revealed the shennanigans at Eastern costing
members hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In January, The Milkweed revealed what the
auditors found in studying profits made by Eastern
directors selling butter and cheese ... as well as how
much Eastern was paying Mrs. Tewksbury—the
president’s wife — each week.
In February, The Milkweed predicted Eastern
members would get hit with a million dollar-plus milk
check assessment because of bankruptcies.
And in May, The Milkweed reached readers with
details of Eastern’s $2.5 million check assessment
before Eastern’s letter arrived explaining the big bite
out of members’ milk checks.
In the May issue of The Milkweed, readers learned
that Eastern claim to the NYS Producer Security Fund
is being challenged by the state because Eastern didn’t
file its claims on time. Readers saw the prediction that
Mr. Tewksbury was in line for a high-paying job at
Eastern in the May issue of The Milkweed.
Also in the May issue, Hardin revealed the penalty
clauses in the Leprino contract which mean Eastern
can lose tens of thousands of dollars each month if the
co-op is unable to supply Leprino with the contracted
volumes of milk.
And Milkweed subscribers know why there will
likely be another future million dollar milk check
assessment against Eastern members’ milk checks.
And in June , . . possibly the biggest revelation
yet concerning the Leprino deal! You’ll read it first in
The Milkweed.
If you earn your living milking cows ... or
anywhere in the milk business . . . you should read the
new, sometimes controversial milk marketing report.
The Milkweed. Each month The Milkweed will tell you
what’s going on inside the milk business .
from the June 9,
in The Daily Star,
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Pete Hardin, editor and publisher of The Milkweed
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