03-10-2012 08:54 AM | USA

Dairy instability fuels Vilsack's call for reform

Tough times in the dairy industry are not lost on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

Speaking to a World Dairy Expo gathering on Tuesday, Vilsack acknowledged there have been “significant price spikes and very deep depressed prices” in recent years.” And the time interval between those spikes is shortening so that producers don’t have the time to rebound from difficult years, he added.
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