European dairymen are also struggling.

    Milk price woes have European dairymen in a state of near riot. Farmers hold the European Union - rather than the worldwide economic collapse - responsible for their plight. According to an article in last Thursday's edition of The Economist dairymen want to preserve strict production ceilings on milk, even though some countries aren't close to hitting their ceilings, and even though production quotas are on the road to gradual phaseout.
    Some want immediate new production curbs to make milk scarcer and thus more expensive. Others attack supermarket chains, accusing them of profiteering. They note that retail prices for milk have hardly fallen while prices at the farm gate were plummeting.
    There are some interesting parallels to the U.S. dairy situation, and some differences, too. For the full article: http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=478044&story_id=14170799

    An organic dairy farm outside Indianapolis, Indiana, has been drawing customers not just for the milk - which is pasteurized but not homogenized - but also for ice cream, lunch and safari rides through the pastures at $10 a head. And on their way out the door, the customers very often stop to pick up some Traders Point milk for $3.50 a quart. Repeat: quart. The Traders Point Creamery milking herd is 100 percent Brown Swiss and 100 percent grass fed. Organic grass that is. The operation began in 2003, when Jane Elder inherited a corn and soybean farm from her parents. She and her physician husband determined that they wanted to farm in harmony with the land. Lancaster Farming correspondent Lou Ann Good visited the farm, took some pictures and wrote a story, which appear in Section B of our current edition.

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