Somebody Other Than The Farmer Is Getting The Bucks

A proposal to recapture profits from milk producers and retailers, and give some of the money to hard-pressed dairy farmers, will get a full hearing this week. The complaint is that while prices have gone up for consumers, farmers are seeing lower prices for their fluid milk.

I am sure everybody has noticed how much the price of a gallon of milk has risen over the past few month. Coming from a farming family and farming community, I didn't mind paying the extra as I want to see farmers be able to stay in business. Didn't realize until last night when Channel 3 had a video on the price of milk for the farmer going down during this time period. They interviewed Marc Magnan (Marc is the son of Henry & Loretta (Howrigan) Magnan) and in the course of the interview it was mentioned. Apparently there is a meeting this coming Tuesday on this in Montpelier.

For those of you that don't have high speed Internet, you can read the story below:

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=8966529

For those of you with hispeed Internet, you can watch the video below:

http://www.wcax.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=2885960&h1=Vermont%20Milk%20Fee%20Raises%20Questions&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=131767&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=68844885