theist Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 More Dairy Cows Slated For Slaughter Milk Producers Want To Cut Production, Keep Prices Up POSTED: 3:03 pm EST December 11, 2004 WASHINGTON -- A dairy trade group is expanding a program that pays farmers to kill some of their dairy cows to keep milk prices up. The National Milk Producers Federation will pay farmers to send nearly 52,000 dairy cows to slaughter over the next few months. The federation said the program will remove 931 million pounds of milk from the nation's food supply. This is the second year the group is paying farmers to reduce the amount of milk on the market. In the program's first year, 35,000 cows were slaughtered, removing 600 million pounds of milk. The effort was one of several factors that helped push milk prices to record highs this year, following 25-year lows the previous year. Other factors included lower production of a growth hormone and the banning of livestock from Canada after a case of mad cow disease was discovered there last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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