The Dairy
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cooperative Dairy Farmers of
America, expanding the Compact
to include Pennsylvania and New
York was considered a moot issue
by many.
Industry Positions
In news releases the DFA has
called for opening the Compact
Gaty Hanman, DFA president
and CEO states in a DFA news
release, “Efforts are underway in
almost every state where DFA has
members to develop some type of
pricing system, which is indepen
dent of the pricing system con
tained in Federal Milk Marketing
Orders.”
Land O’Lakcs, until the DFA
merger, was the second largest
dairy cooperative. It’s position is
that it supports expansion of the
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Compact, but not just for one or
two additional states. Land O’
Lakes is petitioning for the Com
pact to be opened nationally, and if
that can be done through opening
up the existing Northeast Interstate
Dairy Compact, then it will seek to
do so, according to spokesperson
Laura England
Other organizations have stated
support for opening the Compact,
though not with the aggressiveness
of DFA.
More locally, a small contigent
of dairy fanners from northeast
Pennsylvania, the same ones who
had threatened to dump milk to
potest federal pricing methods,
has been issuing statements to the
media calling for action to join the
Compact.
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seeking to join the Compact, was
recently called for by Pro-Ag, run
by Arden Tewksburry of
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There has been no groundswell
of support for opening the Com
pact by either the state Grange nor
the state Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau.
At the state level and in the
indusUy, some have expressed
concern that it doesn’t make sense
to spend several months effort to
gain at best a couple to several
months of participation in the
Compact, given the current issues
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and given that no one has been able
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Maryland Farm Bureau wants
its state to be included, as do some
of its daily producers. Maryland
has been suffering from higher
overhead costs than many dairy
producers, as well as suffering
from depressed milk prices
because of out-of-state milk being
dumped in Maryland at below-cost
prices.
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the effect of opening the Compact,
and initial guesses ate that milk
prices would drop.
But, another issue affecting
efforts to open the Compact is that
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proposed restructuring of the fed
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