The problem is simply stated: We have too many farms with too many cows producing too much milk for the markets that we ...
Due to a lot of factors, change cannot come soon enough to save those who progressed too far along the path of overprodu...
Milk prices have been so low for so long that we must act quickly, or in a few short months there will be a massive exit...
This is another Band-Aid approach that has about as much chance to solve the dairy price crisis as taking an aspirin wou...
There are no words that can adequately describe how truly bad the economics are, they are just that bad.
In my county alone, there are 25 dairies that have either filed, or are on the edge of filing, for bankruptcy.
We support the July 15th letter that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, along with my Senator, Barbara Boxer, from Califo...
the worst I have ever seen it, in our family, in my family's generation
The impact will be huge if we do not change something in the very near future.
this Subcommittee has provided in the full Committee as it relates to what has been the meltdown of the dairy industry n...
if we are going to try to change this cycle, these boom-and-bust cycles continuing to be narrow, it seems to me that the...
the issues are, many of them are, related to competitiveness, and the fact that we would be more competitive in the long...
We hope to continue to vet that with you during the month of August.
Mr. Chairman, we need to get a handle on this as we move forward on whatever long-term solutions we find...
We want to get the Agriculture Department back over here.
I once again want to thank you and Chairman Peterson.
If we are going to deal with these long-term boom-and-bust cycles, that is going to have to be a critical part of the lo...
We have a very serious, serious problem, a critical one.
