Using recently obtained data on cooperative premiums that give us a more direct estimate of the actual prices paid by processors for raw milk in New England, we have recalculated our impact models. The Northeast Dairy Compact’s impact on consumers, computed net of changes in cooperative...

This paper compares and evaluates two recent studies of the impact of the Northeast Dairy Compact. On May 2, 2001 we released “The Public Interest and Private Economic Power: A Case Study of the Northeast Dairy Compact.” A year earlier Professor Kenneth Bailey, Pennsylvania State University...

In this paper we interpret and explain in more detail the economic analysis contained in our report, The Public Interest and Private Economic Power: A Case Study of the Northeast Dairy Compact. This paper contains a graphic deconstruction of the price analysis that is presented in that report....