Bloc voting has not worked out at all well for dairy farmers under the cooperative system. It is too easy to sway a handful of representatives to do whatever coop management wants done.
On the other hand here is a piece on the other side of the story. We don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but work certainly needs to be done on the way coops function today.
The national issue and the state one are not identical, but you can get the idea of what is going on with the issue from the two stories.
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Anything that increases your voice in the whole operation sounds like a *darn* good idea!
June, I agree. There have been many, many times, when, given an individual vote farmers would have chosen the exact opposite of what the coops did. Most of them are right in the pockets of the milk processors and not acting in farmer interests at all.
I think it sounds like a really good idea. I agree with June anything that increase the farmer voice.
Linda
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