Pennsylvania’s dairy farmer premium will decline April 1 as the state Milk Board acknowledges concerns about how the pricing mechanism affects consumers.
After holding steady at $1 per hundredweight for several years, the premium will fall to 50 cents per hundredweight from April to June.
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