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Help Save American Dairy Farmers-Send A Message To The USDA
While some people are upset about a beauty queen scandal and others are upset over a former beauty queen’s non-scandal the bankers are doing what they do best. The financial institutions are preying on those who are unable to save themselves from their predatory banking practices.
This time it’s American dairy farmers. That’s right folks banks across the country are cutting off farmers’ access to credit and at least two dairy farmers have committed suicide in California.
The most recent speculation is the drop in domestic milk prices could result in a loss of 30 percent of the remaining dairy farmers by December 2009. That would be about 20,000 family dairy farmers off the land–out of the dairy farming business by the end of 2009.
Losing so many family farmers around the nation will have a further devastating economic effect on American farmers; the loss will wipe out more than $52 billion of economic development in less than one year.
Some experts say a critical gap in U.S. food safety will be created as foreign milk protein concentrate (MPC) imports from countries such as Mexico, India and China will increase dramatically. It is said these countries have lower food safety standards than the U.S.
We ask you to write to the Secretary of the Agriculture, Tom Vilsack , to request he use his authority set forth under Section 608c (18) of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to adjust the price of milk paid to farmers to “reflect the price” of production. This legally mandated “floor price” should be at least $17.50 cwt.
Once again, we are in a crisis situation. It demands immediate and decisive action.
We, all of us, are friends to family farmers and as the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack is responsible to alleviate this situation.
YOU must act quickly. Encourage the Secretary ot institute reforms in dairy pricing to ensure a disaster like this is averted in the future. Our American dairy farmers are counting on you. Contact the USDA today!
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