1.   A call to Suiza Foods, the largest New England milk processor, was not returned.

2.   Dairy Management has been eager to gain support from the California milk processors for a national marketing effort.

3.   If prices fell below the level set by a special commission, milk processors were levied an assessment to make up the difference.

4.   Ice cream manufacturers and milk processors such as Dean Foods Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc., owned by Philip Morris Cos., have long fought dairy price supports.

5.   Many milk processors are reluctant to discuss wholesale prices.

6.   Mark Goldman, president of a New Jersey milk processor, poses the right question.

7.   Midwestern milk processors, who fear the Northeast farmers will eat into their profits, oppose it.

8.   Milk processors and distributors, along with some consumer groups, call it an unwarranted subsidy for inefficient farmers.

9.   Now, the milk processors, who bottle milk, are changing their tactics.

10.   Prices to milk processors are figured on the previous price paid to farmers.