Milk dealers sue state over levy ALL Edition
"The emergency is still there," Tara Zadeh, a lawyer for the state Agriculture Department, said yesterday. But the state hasn't paid any money out to dairy farmers since September when most of the state's larger milk dealers joined the West Lynn Creamery in Lynn in refusing to pa...
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| Published in: | Telegram & gazette |
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| Format: | Newspaper Article |
| Language: | English |
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Worcester, Mass
GateHouse Media, Inc
11.12.1992
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| ISSN: | 1050-4184 |
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| Summary: | "The emergency is still there," Tara Zadeh, a lawyer for the state Agriculture Department, said yesterday. But the state hasn't paid any money out to dairy farmers since September when most of the state's larger milk dealers joined the West Lynn Creamery in Lynn in refusing to pay into the stabilization fund. A state Appeals Court judge agreed to halt the 6-cent-a-gallon charge pending a hearing by the full Appeals Court on Dec. 29 into the state's attempts to force West Lynn and All Star Lecomte Dairy of Somerset to pay. Agriculture Commissioner Gregory Watson had threatened to revoke the operating licenses of the two dealers, who have been balking since July. Although various other challenges to the special levy, aimed at closing the gap between federally-set milk prices and the higher production costs of Massachusetts farmers, have been filed in federal and state courts, the ruling marked the first time any dealer had obtained a temporary stay, Zadeh said. |
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| ISSN: | 1050-4184 |