21.   High milk prices would also raise the cost of national, state, and local nutrition programs.

22.   Higher milk prices would act like a tax on residents in urban areas, like New York City, for the purpose of transferring money to upstate farm communities.

23.   In the patchwork of free market forces and government formulas that drive milk prices these days, it is the retailers that are fattening their profit margins.

24.   It compared milk prices in Boston last year, where dairy processing is dominated by Texas-based Suiza Foods, and Milwaukee, where there is more competition.

25.   It may be getting worse in the dairy industry, where falling milk prices have pushed farmers to expand their herds while skimping on manure-handling gear.

26.   It would not affect retail milk prices, at least not directly.

27.   Jeffords now has a shield to protect the subsidies to Vermont dairy farmers that keep milk prices high to consumers.

28.   Last month, a group of middle-class housewives rallied outside a major downtown hotel to protest rising milk prices.

29.   Milk prices at the farm level went way up last year and then plunged downward toward the end of last year and early this year.

30.   Milk prices were flat while operating costs were climbing.