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Inside the July issue: Farm Milk Price Improvement Finally at Hand… Cream Scarce, “Multiple” High … June 2010 Class III Price $13.82 – June Class IV $15.45 … DOJ/USDA Dairy Antitrust Workshop: Listening & Posturing … No Further Details on Threatened Chines Ban of U.S. Dairy Imports … Upscale Emmi Yogurt: Retail Price +$400/cwt. (Contains MPC!) … NMPF’s “Foundation for the Future” – Roadmap to Hades … Marvin Hoekema Analyzes NMPF’s Foundation for the Future” … Did ’09 Failure to Export Surplus Powder Cause Current Cheese Glut? … Latest CWT Export Scam … Take a Long, Long Look at Butter & Cream … “Gulf-Hopping” Spotlights Ag Solutions to Energy Dilemma … Dairy Cattle Replacement Prices at Auction Markets Across the USA … 1930s U.S. Supreme Court Dairy Decisions Relevant … Butter & Milk Powder Tight; Plenty of Cheddar … Divergent Chorus: “Blame the Supermarkets” … Good Idea: USDA/Dairy Industry Advisory Panel … Organic Raw Milk Souring Political Battles Shift to Wisconsin and Massachusetts … RR Alfalfa: Monsanto Misfires on Reporting High Court Ruling … and much more!

HOT ISSUES ON THE FRONT BURNER  (click on headlines below):

 *** Special Dairy Antitrust Issue - June 2010 ***

Huge RICO Lawsuit against DFA’s Cheddar Price Manipulation

Killer Whale vs. DFA Lawsuit

*** DOJ Antitrust Sues Dean Foods to Block Foremost Farms Buy ***
 “The Methane Digester Scam”

*** Big New Northeast Dairy Antitrust Lawsuit ***

Southeast Antitrust Cases: #1 & #2

*** NPR: Independent Farmers Feel Squeezed By Milk Cartel ***

DEAN FOODS SHAREHOLDER LAWSUIT

Nonfat Milk Reporting Complaint

John Bunting’s Dairy Journal
April 2008 DFA Financial Stories

 USDA Milk Powder Pricing Fiasco & OIG Report

    More Hot Topics

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• Manipulations of cheese prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

• Financial shenanigans of the largest dairy cooperatives.

• Illegal use of imported Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC) by major food processors (like Kraft Foods) in many consumer dairy products.

• How imports are dragging down prices paid to U.S. dairy farmers.

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