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Milk producers rally in Manchester

MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP)--Dairy owners from a number of Midwestern states used Manchester as the site of a rally for higher prices of raw milk.

Speakers at the rally May 30 said raw milk prices far below the cost of production threaten to put as many as 25 percent of the nation's dairy farmers out of business,

Rally co-organizer Jerry Harvey, who milks 70 cows on a farm near Russell in south-central Iowa, said he was paid $21 per hundred pounds of raw milk a year ago. Today, the price is $11 per hundred pounds, far below the $16 he needs to break even.

Speakers called for an immediate placement of a floor price of $18 per hundredweight for all raw milk.

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