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John Burnett
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Dairy Farmers of America, or DFA, based in Kansas City, Mo., is the nation’s largest dairy cooperative. It buys milk from 18,000 farmer-members and says it tries to get them the best price. DFA controls about a third of the nation’s raw milk supply.

Dean Foods is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Dallas. With brands like Horizon Organic and Land O’Lakes milk, Dean buys from DFA and bottles more than a third of the nation’s milk.

Pete Hardin is publisher of The Milkweed, a monthly dairy marketing and economics report.

In the 30 years Hardin has been writing about the dairy industry, he has chronicled the decline of the family farm and the rise of “Big Milk.” Hardin believes the fundamental problem with the dairy industry is a lack of honest competition and too little government oversight.

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