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Dairy Farmers Reel As Raw Milk Prices Plunge

by John Burnett, NPR
February 5, 2009

After years of record sales and profits, demand in the dairy industry is way down — and so are the prices farmers can get for their raw milk. That's forcing many to leave the business. Some are being forced to sell their herds.

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