31.   Milk fat prices vary depending on whether the milk fat is used for milk, cheese, ice cream or other dairy products.

32.   Milk prices are already rising in the Northeast.

33.   New England milk producers are left pondering their future after a Senate farm bill vote that barred them from setting milk prices.

34.   No supermarket officials testified Tuesday, but representatives of the industry have denied their milk prices are excessive.

35.   Now Glickman has approved a measure that will, by raising milk prices, further erode the purchasing power of food stamps.

36.   New York dairy farmers habitually lobby Albany for one odious measure or another that would jack up milk prices for millions of New Yorkers.

37.   One reason for higher milk prices is that farmers have marked up their prices to cover their costs.

38.   Other issues involve complex pricing structures and conflicting economic analyses, with each side insisting its plan will result in lower milk prices at the grocery store.

39.   Outright purchase by conservation groups or land trusts of all farmland made vulnerable by inadequate milk prices would be prohibitively costly.

40.   Public Voice, a consumer group, lobbied against any move to shore up milk prices.