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Too Much Milk
Hopkins, J. V. | September 8, 1956 issue

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Dairy farms in Wisconsin are undergoing a quiet technological revolution which threatens new problems for government economists and, some observers say, dramatizes the need for new ways of thinking about the problem of agricultural surpluses. Improved fertilizers, new feeds and feeding techniques, more scientific methods of herd management, opportunities in artificial insemination, all of these produce better cows and more milk. But, economic facts dictate caution in the use of higher milk production techniques. Without the higher prices that a lively consumer demand could guarantee and justify, the increased cost of scientific dairy farming would be without profits to the farmer.

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DAIRY farms; MILK production; SURPLUS agricultural commodities; ARTIFICIAL insemination; FARMS; WISCONSIN; UNITED States
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