May 25 2009 - Dairy farmers may once have been milking it financially but that golden run appears to be coming to an end. The US is reintroducing dairy export subsidies for over 90,000 tonnes of products, including milk powder, butter and cheese. "If President Obama wants to make his dairy farmers welfare beneficiaries he should pay them a welfare benefit not pay the price on the actual product," says Philip York from Federated Farmers.
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