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of its 22,000 member dairy farm
ers, the Board of Directors of the
Regional Cooperative Marketing
Agency (RCMA) voted not to
support the current Governor’,?
Legislation regarding the “Dairy
Farmers’ Bill of Rights.”
According to RCMA President
and western New York dairy
farmer. Bill Zuber, the Farmers’
Bill of Rights was originally
intended to protect dairy farmers’
efforts to obtain a fair price for
their milk through “associations
of producers” such as RCMA.
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RCMA Opposes New York Governor’s Bill
current version of the Governor’s
legislation now seeks to regualte
the activities of RCMA and its
members in addition to regulating
the activities of dealers. Zuber
emphasized that RCMA does not
believe a “Farmers’ Bill of
Rights” should regulate farmers.
“Rather, said Zuber, “the legisla
tion should focus on its original
purpose of protecting farmers, not
regulating them.”
RCMA Attorney, David
O’Hara, stated that if regulation of
associations of producers is neces
sary, then a separate study should
be conducted and separate legisla
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tion should be introduced for this
purpose.
“One of the reasons for the Bill
of Rights was that dairy farmers
believed that the Federal statute,
known as the ‘Fair Dairy Practices
Act’, did not contain sufficient
prohibitions to protect farmers
from abuse,” said O’Hara. “In
many respects,” the attorney con
tinued, “the Governor’s bill is less
protective than the federal legisla
tion because it contains a require
ment that illegal dealer actions
must be ‘intentional’, which is
very difficult to prove.”
Zuber explained that this legis
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lation seems to specifically attack
RCMA,” he said. “RCMA would
like to support a bill that in no way
jeopardizes the rights of its dairy
farmer members.” said Zuber.
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Northeastern states. RCMA col
lects, from the marketplace, a
Class I fluid milk differential over
the minimum Class I price set by
the Government, and RCMA
returns this money in the form of
“Over-Order Premiums” to its
farmer-members.
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