Milk Farm that in view of bankruptcy with the decline in milk prices
East Coast farmers say milk, a sharp drop in milk prices has left many of them with financial ruin.
Increased production in the Western USA has reduced the federal minimum price of milk to $ 9.63 per 100 pounds sterling during the last month, representing a decrease of more than $ 6 since September. The last time prices were so low during 1978.
George Donnon, tends to 80 cows near Rising Sun, said he loses $ 5000 per month in income.
”I’m not sure I can survive long at this price,’’said Donnon.
Afflicted dairy farmers from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Alabama land fallow their work Monday morning after the demonstration outside the cold Maryland State House for fair play in setting the price of milk.
They were jointly by representatives of the Maryland chapter of the Sierra Club, said that the conservation of 830 dairy farms in Maryland is the key to control of urbanization and the preservation of open spaces.
The number of dairy farms in Maryland east of 1140 to 1991, after the Maryland Farm Bureau.
”Maryland’s dairy farmers are endangered,’’said Chris Bedford, president of the Sierra Club’s water, food and farm-campaign. This concerns all”.”
The low milk prices could divert Congress allowed Maryland, north-east of Inter State Dairy Compact, said Myron Wilhide, president of the Maryland Dairy Industry Association.
”We want a compact,”he said. ”It is the ups and downs.”
The compact design allows an authorised demonstration Federal six New England states to put above the price of milk to the federal minimum. Last year, Congress extended by two years locked compact, but future new members, including Maryland, in a compromise between the north-east and Midwest lawmakers.
Maryland farmers need milk prices of at least $ 14.40 per 100 kg of milk (about 12 litres), in order to survive, “said Wilhide. The Sierra Club, citing federal studies, said farmers need about $ 18.80.
Alabama dairy farmers Heurion Joe welcomed the care of the environment group.
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