IF CLASSIFIED pricing and pooling were originally created by farmers in the late 1800s to improve their prices, does that duo still achieve those goals in 2013? If the government agreed in the 1930s to enforce this cooperative pricing system because,farmers lacked the market power to fairly negotiate prices with buyers, does this market power imbalance still exist? Price benefit boils down to two questions. One, do we still think that consumer demand for fluid milk products is the most inelastic ofdairy demands? Two, is the demand for Class I products large enough to produce a noticeable benefit? In other words, are we pushing on the right lever, and do we get enough lift to justify the effort?
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