Overview of the Hearing Testimony

Seven people testified during the May 5, 2025 hearing. The following is… testimony received . . . related to QIP . . .  Comments in support of the termination of the QIP: –

The  QIP is illegal

This huge and it is huge when the panel had no answer to this statement.

It has not been duly authorized through the APA. –

Huge , and again no answer. 

CDFA is not being transparent. –

No answer.

No merits that this is a good program for our industry. 

Not one merit stating the QIP is good for anything and yet the Secretary continues on with a program that does us zero good.

 Program was intended to end in 1985 once equalization was achieved.  The quota program was supposed to have been gone by 1985.

No response.

With the FMMO there is no reason for the Quota program to be in existence, it has no legitimacy. –   

No Answer.

It’s a zero sum game for the industry. It would help our industry a tremendous amount [If the QIP was terminated]. It would help our industry to get rid of the QIP –

No Answer.

You don’t mind taking my cash assets every single month, but we can’t take away your asset, the Quota.

Double standards typical quota holder.

The Quota holders are back at it again with the Myths and lies

California Quota Implementation Plan May 5, 2025, Hearing Findings Page 4 Comments in opposition to the termination of the QIP:

People invested in this [Quota]. People made business decisions.

So you could have sold your quota for the past 6 years, but you  made a business decision to hang onto your quota, and most of you received your quota for free, at least the original quota holders

The industry voted to have a quota payment,

No we did not, look at the ballot, we voted for the federal order ..

[The QIP was voted in with two thirds vote.]

And it should take 2/3rds to keep it going to be in the same like manner, but CDFA did just the opposite in this last referendum. Technically we could have a marketing program with only 40% approval.

It’s not stealing money; it’s a huge investment.

If it is not stealing money, then give it back.

Getting rid of quota with no compensation is contrary to the way we do business here in America.

These guys must be living in a communist America, where you can take peoples money and give it to 300 dairyman and receive nothing back.  and they call that American.   They have been compensated with over 6 billion dollars, that is not enough.  The original termination clause in 1970 had no compensation for quota, and the 1983 fixed differential had a termination clause without a compensation clause, and the QIP has the same termination without compensation?   What is unamerican, is stealing money and not allowing the industry to vote on whether we want quota.  Quota holders do not even know how to spell America.

Now here is an outright lie – Quota Myth

I understand the frustration of dairymen that do not own any Quota. But every person who dairies in California knew that being in the dairy industry requires paying into the Quota system, and every dairyman, including Quota owners, pay into it.   

Big Fat Lie, I did not know about us paying the quota premium until 2017 when the PRB was shown the deduction on our milk checks for the first time.  Most everyone that I have talked to was under the impression that quot3 was psid from the class one sales.  And they were, until the Swindell of 1984 the fixed differential, which was not voted on by the industry.      It is an insult every time a quota holder call himself an American.

I should not be punished because I chose to invest in Quota while others chose to invest in land, cows or whatever.

This is a great one, like a little whinner back in grade school.  He is being punished, and we haven’t been for the last 55 years and some 6 billion dollars, now that is punishment, not receiving the money.  Our investments can go bad, but not little Johnny quota boy.   Three lawsuits and three referendums to get rid of Quota and they are still holding their quota, and whining.,

Our Quota was bought through a lot of hard work, creativity and smart investing.

Are you kidding me, let’s see I get free quota that nets me $50,000 a month for the last 55 years, and I put $50,000 in the bank  every month at 4% interest compounded monthly and 55 years later I have over $100,000,000 in my bank account and I did not have to lift a finger, just sit there and watch the money roll in from the initial free quota and every month after collecting that free $50,000  rolling in,. Now that took a stroke of genius to earn all of that money, and how hard it must have been to lift up those free quota certificates and open the $50,000 envelopes for the next 55 years. Just think of all of the new dairyman that you took millions of their dollars so they can go broke and you brag about what a great investor you are,

Shame on you, that is not something to brag about, getting free money from hard working dairyman.  Now they are the real dairymen, you are just a quota farmer, that’s all. Spoiled and full of Greed, the bible talks about men like that.  Nothing to brag about.

Unless you are a greedy law breaker.

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