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Public Hearing for our Petition #5 to Terminate Quota
There is a public hearing scheduled for May 5, 2025. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (Department) has scheduled a public hearing to receive comments from the California market milk producers and the general public on a petition titled “Petition to...
Frank Konyn’s Insights on California Class I Quotas
This was truly a compromise amendment. Yes, Quota holders were going to receive less income on the pounds of quota that they held, but they were still receiving more income than the class 1 market is generating. Last year, the California Class 1 market only generated...
Konyn Amendment Vote Falls Below 65%: No Changes Stop QIP Referendum Projected for Late Spring
Matters involving the “Quota Implementation Program” (QIP) remain on the front burner in California. First, a statewide vote on the so-called “Konyn Amendment” to QIP has failed to gain the necessary two-thirds vote by the state’s Grade A dairy producers. That means...
Results of the Amendment Referendum to the Quota Implementation Plan
On February 21, 2025, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (Department) released the results of the Amendement Referendum to the Quota Implementation Plan. The referendum vote among California Market Milk Producers within the State of California was...
CDFA Misses 30-Day Limit to Report QIP Results
January 10, 2025 was the deadline to conclude voting by California’s Grade A dairy producers on a referendum to alter the state’s Quota Implementation Program (QIP). QIP is the mechanism that governs California’s controversial system of dairy farm-based milk quotas....
Quota Referenda & Legal Challenge Fracture Calif. Producers
by Pete Harding Orginally printed in the January 2025 issue of The Milkweed - Issue No. 544 If the devastation from avian influenza hammering California’s milk industry wasn’t a big enough issue, dairy producers in the Golden State are now split over a bedrock...
QIP Hearing Transcript
Last month, there as a hearing that discussed the QIP. The CDFA has released that hearing and you can read the transcript for the hearing and the findings. Our own Craig Gordon can be found in the discussion on pages 21-41 and 48-52. You can read the full transcript...
California Consumers – Everything is Going Up in Price
Then why are we paying a billion dollar tax on milk that does not improve the milk supply or milk quality? No, it goes straight into the pockets of the favored 300 dairymen. Join us in getting rid of this tax called the QIP! Stop QIP Dairy Tax
Leaders of the California Dairy Industry get a Grade F
We apologize, sometimes we get so desperate to end quota, that we feel like the bad guy and the quota holders are the victims. Yet, the quota holders have received over 6 billion dollars since the program was started, on quota certificates that were only handed out...
Quotes Worth Reading
"Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust."- Robert Zoellick "To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism."- G. Edward Griffin "Corruption is worse than prostitution....
Something to Think About
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." - Thomas Jefferson
California overpaid as much as $55B in unemployment claims… will we ever get the money back?
Spread the word -- news just out. It wasn't a $35 billion scandal...it wasn't a $40 billion scandal. It was a $55 billion scandal-- news just out! Please click on the link below to read the article and be sure to pass it along. We have three more budgets under Gavin...
QIP Hardship
To Whom It May Concern, I write today to urgently address an egregious injustice that has plagued our livelihood as a first-generation dairy producer. The deduction of QIP from our milk check has placed an overwhelming financial burden upon me and my family,...
Very Important!
Dear Dairyman, Enclosed are six petitions that need to be signed so we can submit them one after another until we get rid of Quota. We have enclosed all six petitions and a stamped return envelope for you to send back. This was our original Petition that...
Stop QIP’s Response to CDFA
Re: Denial of Petition #5 Peter Weber, You will note that she did not quote one statue or regulation in her denial letter. Let’s go over her letter: 1. No need to quote anything that has to do with the PRB, it is an unethical, unfair, and a illegal board. ...
The Milkweed
Milkweed is a great publication for the dairies and has been great in reporting our fight against the QIP here in California. Be sure to subscribe so that they can survive and keep producing great work! www.themilkweed.com608-455-2400$100-$160 a year
Quota Premium Assessment
The latest court ruling says the QIP does not require a dairymen to surrender his milk. So, call your Creamery or Co-op and let them know. If it is not required quit taking it. The Sacramento County Superior Court has issued a decision in the case Gordon v. Ross CDFA...
Losing Dairies Weekly
In the last 3.5 years, we have lost another 198 dairies for an average of one dairy a week. Quota is the difference between making money in the dairy industry or losing everything. Losing one dairy a week is one too many for us. Click here to see the list of the...
Stop QIP Wins One Against CDFA in Court
It was a great week for Stop QIP as we got a win against the CDFA in Court! We encourage you to check out the links to see the new. You can view the court documents by clicking the links below: Order Re-Motion for Summary...
Alternative Financing
If you are in the dairy or farm industry and are looking for alternative financing and risk management you need to check out the following companies: Access Fair and Affordable Ag LoansLila Schwartzman831-425-0303 ext. [email protected] Debbie...
Lawyer Kirtley gets the Clay Award – for Attorney of the Year in 2023 – for his work on destroying the dairy industry here in California.
To the Editor of the Daily Journal, You would think that before your journal would publish garbage, that it would have done some investigative journalism. Your article (click link to see the original article Gordon is responding to) on quota in the milk industry is...
What Sets up Apart
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We will not quit until we terminate the QIP!
Stop QIP Is far from quitting and we will not quit until we terminate the QIP.We want our quota assessments back and we want to sue for our actual damages and ask for punitive damages from CDFA and the Intervenors. Here is another example of how CDFA and...
Ross 3.5 Denial
Check out the latest video that discusses Secretary Ross' Chapter 3.5 denial. You can watch the full video by clicking here! Stop QIP Dairy Tax
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