CALL THE USDA TODAY !!! 202-720-3631

Forget the local support efforts. We need to hit this nationally! If we expect to get any help whatsoever in our pricing, the milk price corruption must end. We are losing hundreds of family farms as we speak. The dairy farmer is a hard worker. The government and the industry is using our product as a loss-leader. We are not a loss-leader industry! As dairy farmers we provide one of the most essential food products in everyday life. We have to band together to demand a fair price for our product and not let the corrupt pricing take us under. Tomorrow 200 more fellow dairymen will be out of business either due to foreclosure or not being able to feed their cattle. We need to DEMAND that we are paid enough to make a living. TIME IS RUNNING OUT! Call Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack TODAY at 202-720-3631. Tell him your story. Demand action. We can't wait until it's too late. My father, who is 75 years old, is spending every hour of every day, going on very little sleep, contacting everyone. He is RELENTLESS! We need more like him. Just like our product is perishable, so are we. We do not have a long shelf life. No one can go on for long when it costs them more to make the product than we can sell it for. We need a profit like everyone else in business. Our animals and our milk are the most important things to us. Are we supposed to cull 50 per cent of our herd to lower the supply and create demand? NO! Our daily costs are extraordinarily high. We must receive a fair market price for our product. The MILC program is a joke. There is a cap -- how can they put a cap on our product? There is no cap on our inputs. And we get a 1099 to boot! Call Secretary Vilsack -- ask him why the dairy farmer is told to tighten our belts and ride it out. Are the corrupt banks and car industry told to tighten their belts and ride it out? Are we second class citizens? Are we less-than Americans? Do we not count as much as the banks and the car industry? And who knows who else got money in that bail-out package? DID YOU KNOW that Section 325 of the bailout provides essential tax breaks for the wool research fund? DID YOU KNOW that Section 503 gives $6 million in tax breaks for the manufacturer of wooden arrows for toys? DID YOU KNOW that Section 309 provides $192 million so that Puerto Rican and Virgin Island rum producers can make more rum? DID YOU KNOW that Section 502 gives $10 million to independent film productions? And DID YOU KNOW that Section 317 gives a tax break to racetracks? All of this is more important than our dairy farmers and our milk supply? Look it up -- there's more! We must work from the top. The only place to go is to the Secretary of Agriculture. The local powers-that-be just don't have the clout. BUT WE DO IN NUMBERS! We need thousands of calls! We need to work together like never before! Join me, join my father. If Obama taught us anything is has to be that if we work together to get our fair price it is possible. YES WE CAN!