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Jim Costa: “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…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
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 of dairy farmers like you can't possibly imagine.
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Jim Costa
Democratic · California

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Jim Costa warns about the impending crisis in the dairy farming industry due to low milk prices.

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