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Reversal is in the Mail
The Reversal Referendum has started, be sure to check your mailbox! Fill out the ballot, sign it, and send it back in the self-addressed stamped envelope. For any questions, the correct phone number is: 1-877-786-7747. Stop QIP Dairy Tax
Question & Answer
Sent: Thu, Sep 15, 2022 3:47 pmSubject: QIP Craig, Is this accurate? The Department administers a dairy milk program known as the “Quota Implementation Plan” (“QIP”). QIP was originally intended to help maintain satisfactory marketing conditions and a reasonable...
Expect the Reversal Ballot in August
Since we cannot get CDFA to do the right thing. So, we are taking matters into our hands. Expect a ballot in the mail in August. We will be voting on the Petition # 3 the Reversal. If you are paying right now into the QIP you will...
$539,085,000
A little over a 1/2 billion dollars is what CDFA has cost the California Dairy industry by contravening the law since November 1, 2018. They took the money from the dairy industry and then turned it over to favored 300 dairymen without the industry getting anything...
Tax Money… I Can See the Headlines
Look at all of the wonderful things we could be doing with our tax instead of making 300 dairies stinking rich. I can see the headlines, The California Dairies are donating from their Quota Tax fund $670 million to aid nations at risk of hunger because of Russia's...
Petition #3 Update
To view the original Petition #3 that was submitted, click here. CDFA is stalling again and not doing what the Food and Ag Code and Civil procedures call for, but what is new. We should have had an answer back from Secretary Ross over a month ago, on whether she is...
Petition #2 Update
To view the original petition, please click here. They denied Petition #2 on the same grounds as Petition #1 citing the California Marketing Act. But we cited Chapter 3 and Chapter 3.5 and we cited the QIP with the required super majority vote. It is obvious that...
Petition #1 Update
To review the original petition, please click here. We never could get a list of who CDFA says, has the right to vote according to CDFA. Therefore, they submarined our time limit on the Petition of 90 days. They also wrongfully denied it because we cited Division 21...
Coming to Theaters Soon!
Coming to theaters soon, The Quota Racket starring Gavin Newsom, Karen Ross, Nial McCarthy, Matt Swanson, and a supporting cast led by the famous Intervenors. Based on a true story, you will see a racket that makes Al Capone look like a Sunday...
There Ought to be a Law Against Something like This
332,403,650 Americans just gave the Ukraine 780 million dollars in Military Aid to fight the Russian Army. 933 California Dairymen give 1 billion dollars every 6.3 years to 300+ California Dairymen and receive nothing return. There ought to be a law against something...
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes – Californians Deserve Better
Quota is a tax on Dairyman that is passed on down to consumers who purchase our milk products. One billion dollars is collected every 6.3 years from our dairy industry and handed over to a select number of dairymen without providing anything for our consumers. A...
Important – Must Read!
Dear Dairymen of California, What if the PRB board put together a new regulation that said all Coops in California with over 25 dairies shipping to them, are now required to pay $.65 cwt. on all milk shipped into the Coops regardless of class. This money would...
There is the Swamp in Washington D.C.
What about the Sewer in Sacramento? The dairy industry is getting screwed by QDFA. Quota Department of Food and Agriculture. QDFA put the QIP in Chapter 3.5 and when StopQIP tried to terminate Chapter 3.5, they were told by QDFA that it is illegal to use that...
Look Up the Definition of Cheat
Typical CDFA denies petitions without looking at them. They claim that the sections used for authority are invalid. Do they call us to discuss this? No typical CDFA. We do not know how CDFA came up with that response. ...
Historic Ruling by the Appellate Court
The QIP was not ruled illegal because it failed to have a hearing as required by Section 62616 of Chapter 3 of Division 21 of the Food and Ag Code. This will change, 50 years of legal statutory construct, of the necessity of having a hearing , anytime you want...
Entitlement
They go out of their way to serve themselves. ...They feel as if they deserve better. ...They have an exaggerated sense of self-worth. ...They feel as though they deserve special treatment. Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder Grandiose sense of...
Stop QIP Appeal to be Heard January 18, 2022
Tuesday the 18th of January our much anticipated appeal will be heard by a panel of 3 Justices from the District 3 Appellate Court of California. You can go to the Appellate courts web site (https://www.courts.ca.gov/3dca.htm) and get the instructions on how...
WUD Quota Calculator
It is a no wonder that Dairymen think quota is a great investment, when you have Western United Quota Dairyman put a quota calculator in their quota section. It is this kind of lack of truth that got us in this problem of quota in the first place. How can you have a...
Where is our Leadership when our Government Stomps on our Rights?
Why has Western United Dairymen, Milk Producers Council, California Dairies Inc., Dairy farmers of America and Land of Lakes done nothing when Dairymen’s Rights get trampled on by our government who is supposed to be serving us. God knows we pay them enough. It is one...
Thank You
We are Ahead of schedule. We have 263 Packets of 6 Petitions signed and we have 19 more that are committed. According to the Sunset there are 933 Dairies, and we need 233 Signatures or 25% to submit our petitions to a referendum. Now remember the law is not as it is...
We Are Retracting Our Vierra Story
Our apologies to our next alleged Secretary of Agriculture Matt Swanson of Associated Feeds. We reported his daughters purchase of one cow for $355,000 for Vierra Dairy in Hilmar after she gave a declaration against Stop QIP telling of the hard times they are...
Good News – Petitions Are Coming Fast!
News Update _Good news Thank you for your response of getting us your petition’s back. We will get those Petitions in right away, and then we will start the process to have the referendums right away also. We are praying that we get this over before we lose anymore...
Speaking of CDFA – Stop Already!
News Update_Stop Already Remember the PRB board meeting and StopQIP made the motion to suspend the $.36 cwt. tax for six months to give the dairy industry a little relief in this Coved disaster? And one by one the Board members paraded by the microphone with great...
Good News from Sacramento
News Update_Good News Another rule you don’t have to follow. If you purchased or sold quota in the last two years, and you want to either sell or buy, we have good news for you. You don’t have to wait the two years, because all you have to do is on the quota transfer...
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