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Settlement would pay average of $4K to dairy farmers
2015-02-05 18:47:15| Food - Topix.net
MONTPELIER >> More than 7,000 Northeast dairy farmers could get an average of around $4,000 in a proposed settlement with the cooperative Dairy Farmers of America over an alleged effort to drive down prices paid to farmers. A final federal court hearing was held last week in Vermont on the $50 million proposal to resolve antitrust allegations.
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US Farmers Say Agriculture Has Done Its Part to Reduce Deficit
2015-02-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson has commended President Obama’s 2015 Budget Proposal, noting its crucial investments for family farmers, ranchers and rural America.
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Uganda's Pig Farmers Benefit from Feed Assessment Training
2015-02-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UGANDA - Feed assessment training has the effect of increasing the availability of local feeds for the country's smallholders who keep pigs.
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Settlement would pay an average of $4K to dairy farmers
2015-02-04 17:29:06| Food - Topix.net
More than 7,000 Northeast dairy farmers stand to get an average of $4,000 in a proposed settlement with the cooperative Dairy Farmers of America to resolve antitrust allegations. The 2009 class-action lawsuit charged the cooperative, its marketing arm Dairy Marketing Services and Dallas-based Dean Foods with working together to monopolize the market for raw milk in the Northeast, driving down prices paid to dairy farmers.
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Committee to get update on settlement with Northeast dairy farmers
2015-02-04 17:29:04| Food - Topix.net
Vermont lawmakers will be getting an update from the attorney general's office on the status of a proposed $50 million settlement that the cooperative Dairy Farmers of America has agreed to pay thousands of Northeast farmers to settle antitrust allegations. A judge is expected to decide soon whether to approve the settlement and farmers now have until May to submit a claim.
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