over Pennsylvania.
I whitewash dairy barns as a
sideline to supplement our farm
income and I get many ideas
from listening to the heart of
America, “the true American
farmers.”
As I travel around to thirteen
counties in our state I hear, and
see many different things that
most farmers don’t realize are
happening or better yet are
never informed about or maybe I
should say “don’t have time to
care about.”
Always rushing to keep work
ing harder because they are told
to, make more milk and we will
market it for you.
It is my opinion that if they
are true dairy leaders, if they
truly wanted to tell the farmers
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something that they should do,
that would be in their best inter
est, they should tell them to stop
producing as much milk for a
while until we can get a hold on
our share of the market price.
Do you think that the co-ops
who are supposed to speak in
the best interest of their produc
ers... are?
The majority of the milk pro
duced in America is still con
trolled by the co-op concept. Yet
why has the price farmers
receive to produce milk way
below cost?
Are the large co-ops process
ing co-ops?
Understanding your sorrow.
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DEC. 27 - FRIDAY,
Editor;
Thank you for your editorial
(Dec. 11, A-10) Your assessment
of the situation dairy farmers
are facing is very accurate. The
future of the dairy industry is
very bleak and I wanted to let
you know that as a dairy farmer
I appreciate someone in the
farm press finally having the
guts to state that all is definite
ly not well. I can only hope that
producers will use this latest
financial melt-down as an oppor
tunity to join as a united front
and to rail against a system that
has very nearly eliminated
them. At this time, if we all curl
up in balls in the corner then
you are absolutely right good
bye dairy farmers!
Thank you again.
Cyrus S. Cochran
Westfield
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