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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Seems to me it was about 1970 when the government really jumped in.  They 
forced dairy farmers to sell off their cows.  And the set pricing really 
went into force big time.

Lynda
The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>


> Around here the government has had control of the dairy industry for a 
> long
> time. In Pennsylvania, the retail price of milk is fixed by law...it goes
> up, but never goes down, and it's illegal to sell under the fixed price.
> $1.50/gallon milk?? We haven't seen that in years...it's around $3/gallon
> here, but the farmers see very little of that money. They are predicting
> that many PA and NY dairy farmers will be out of business by the end of 
> the
> year.