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Dairy producers reject effort to end state milk pool quota
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The state created milk pool quota in 1969 due to inequities in milk contracts. Because milk is priced according to how it is used—with fluid milk commanding the highest price—a dairy farmer who ships milk to a plant that bottles milk always earned more than another who sends milk to a processor that makes cheese, powder and other dairy products.
A producer referendum to end the state’s milk pool quota, known as the quota implementation plan, or QIP, has failed, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced earlier this month.