For the past several years, monopolistic price fixing by two multibillion-dollar milk processing behemoths – DFA [an outfit deceptively named Dairy Farmers of America] and Dean Foods – has squeezed thousands of dairy farms out of business, paying farmers less for a gallon of milk than it costs them to produce it. The Big Two controlled some two-thirds of all raw milk processed nationwide, essentially forcing farmers to sell on the processors’ terms. Last year, […]
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