date:Oct 22, 2018
Wenderlich Owens, a spokeswoman for Dairy Farmers of America. After exhausting all options, if an imbalance still exists, raw milk may be disposed.
When you have a free-market type of system, it just shows the vulnerability that the farm price has to market conditions, said Doug DiMento, a spokesman for Agri-Mark. A cooperative that serves about 900 dairy farms in the Northeast, Agri-Mark recently invested $21 million to expand one of its four plants so it can take excess milk off the market.