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So this whole milk refund thing from the animal rights wackos suing National Milk Producers Federation,who gets any unclaimed money? The lawyers? The animal rights wackos?
 
If it's the one claiming farmers sold cows to raise price of milk then from what I read the lawyers get the majority of the money. So am I guilty because I held my soybeans waiting on the market to go up? What about OPEC dropping production to raise prices? Btw the bean thing worked bout for me! Sold some at a good bit more than harvest.
 
Funny that they only cared about it when it was farmer funded. The government did the same thing back in the 80s and nobody except beef producers seemed to care.
 
I was at an auto parts store this spring. A neighbour and I were talking and the lady behind the counter said that we should keep our old out of production cows as pets. If they want to jack the price of milk up high enough to cover all the expenses of housing feeding and caring for retired cows I'm all for it,please sign me up. What they don't understand is that we have to make hard decisions about our animals because we're on a very squeezed income and if we don't make those hard decisions and farm more with a bleeding heart than a business head than the bank will serve us our eviction notice.
 
ain't that funny, should be one jonf todays funny, I sold out in 2003 when I got a settlement check of 12.95, looked at my dad, "I can be broke at the house watching the cartoon channel" I can only hope it helped those that stayed to make it better.
 
Years ago there was a gas station in town that sold gas 10 cents lower than anyone else. They tried to run them out of town dropping their prices, but that station was always a dime lower.

So, the other stations in town got together and bought the property the cheap station was on. Closed it up and paid to pull the tanks out of the ground. Leveled it.

That was 20 years ago. It is still a small parking lot, nothing ever came of the small property.

I remember to this day, the other stations saying what they did, right on the front page of the town newspaper.

Huh.

Paul
 
Probably being sued under price fixing laws,whenever a group of producers of anything get together to conspire to fix prices they open themselves up to lawsuits and legal action.As you noted the Gov't is exempt of course.
 
If you guys want to hear about price fixing I recommend you read the book: Rats In The Grain -the Archer Daniels Midland story. It's about how a handful of companies control the world's supply of Lysine (an amino acid widely used in processed foods). It's a long and some what tedious read (probably because it's written by an ex FBI agent) but it will absolutely flabbergast you the amount of corruption that multi-national companies get away with. JD
 
These large ag companies are locking up seeds and other ag materials but some farmers will defend them to the hilt while they are being screwed by these same companies.Gets
curiouser and curiouser all the time.
 
It wasn't really price fixing. Dairy farmers paid in to a fund to self promote. They did what the government did back in the 80s and paid farmer/members to sell cows for beef,thus taking cows out of the dairy herd. Some animal rights group was opposed to the killing of the cows,not to an increase in the price of milk.
 
(quoted from post at 21:00:15 01/20/17) So this whole milk refund thing from the animal rights wackos suing National Milk Producers Federation,who gets any unclaimed money? The lawyers? The animal rights wackos?
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Well, the darn lawyers are gonna get most the money anyways, but if I had a dairy herd, I'd file a claim for every cow I had. Use an different eartag or stall number for each claim. Maybe the farmer could get SOME money back.
 
I got an email from Michigan Farm Bureau urging me to file a claim and spend the money to buy dairy products. They didn't say where any unclaimed money went,but eluded to it going to the lawyers if we didn't take it. There was a link to the page to make the claim,they just asked for the state you live in and your email address. Being a Farm Bureau member,at their urging,I went ahead and filled it out.
 
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