Mr. Cormac Cunningham:

Liquid milk premium is fixed, irrespective of what happens to the milk. As I said before, half of it does not go into liquid it goes into manufacturing. If there was a direct connection between the price the farmer received and the label I could see a reason for farmers wanting to support it but there is no guarantee. There is nothing set in stone that says if one puts NDC on the label one must sell it at a fixed price or a premium and return it to the farmer. I have often, as a dairy farmer, had the idea of a "fair price for farmers" stamp to go on a carton, no matter where it was produced. It would guarantee to the consumer that a fair price was being returned to the primary producer. We are singing off the same hymn sheet.