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Jim Costa: The problem is simply stated: We have too many farms with too many cows producing too much milk for the markets that we…

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
The problem is simply stated: We have too many farms with too many cows producing too much milk for the markets that we have at this time.
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Jim Costa
Democratic · California

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Jim Costa identifies overproduction in the dairy industry as a key issue.

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