The Milkweed
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Inside the January issue: What’s Ahead for Dairy in 2010??? … 2010: Milk Supply Will Sharply Decline, Raising Prices … December 2009 Class III Price $14.98 – November Class IV $15.01 … s are heading down in January … USDA/DMI Contract to Reduce Dairy’s Greenhouse Gas Output … USDA Announces 17-Member Dairy Advisory Committee … Finally: USDA Issues Dairy Farmer Assistance Payments … Costs for USDA-Recommended Animal ID Package: $9,995 … Kraft Sells Off Frozen Pizza Unit, to Raise Cash for Cadbury Takeover … “Milking the Street” at CME … Global Dairy Commodity Prices Remain High … Wisconsin Gifts Foremost Farms $3.4 Million … Dairy Labor Costs Track Perfectly with Petroleum Costs … “Muscle Milk” … Not Cow’s Milk & Not Much Human Kindness … Dairy’s Beef: No Respect at the Slaughterhouse … Dairy Manure Management & Methane Digesters … Green or Dirty Brown? … Strong (+7%) Retail Cheese Trends Persist; Fluid Sales Slowing … Health Reform Legislation: Who May Be Exempt from Penalties for Failure to Obtain Insurance?... Control Freak: Vilsack Increasingly Despised within USDA the media … Dean Foods/DFA “Smoke Peace Pipe” Over Milk Supply Squabble … Cheddar Block Prices Collapse Just Prior to Christmas … We Can’t Afford to Repeat 2009 … Methane Digesters: Dirty Brown Scam … A. J. Bos Wins Courtroom Battle to Build IL Mega-Dairy ... and much more!

The Milkweed reports what’s really happening in the U.S. dairy industry. You can’t afford to miss the real news affecting your bottom line!

Every month for the past 31 years, The Milkweed has been providing subscribers with facts and insights about events determining prices for dairy commodities and farm milk. No other dairy paper matches the high-caliber reporting found in The Milkweed.

Controversial? Yes! You’ll find that this paper names names and backs up its reporting with hard-to-find facts. Over the years, The Milkweed has documented:

You’ll read about trends in milk supplies and demand for dairy products, analysis of dairy animal price trends, the weather … and many other factors that influence milk prices and the dairy farmers’ profitability.

The Milkweed is written for the dairy farmer and other interested persons in the dairy industry. This paper is now in its 31^st year of continuous publication, and counts about 6,000 subscribers. No advertising revenue influences this publication.

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