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Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative
Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022

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Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative

OPINION Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative is stressing flexibility and fairness in announcing its priorities for reforming the federal milk-pricing system.

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Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative provides dairy farmers throughout the Midwest with a powerful voice in Congress, with customers and within our communities. Edge, based in Green Bay, is the third-largest dairy cooperative in the country based on milk volume. Member farms are located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Visit www.voiceofmilk.com for more information.

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