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Dairy farmers enjoy banner year for milk prices in ’04

Wisconsin’s dairy farmers received record prices for milk last year, thanks to a combination of weaker supplies and more consumption, but 2005 isn’t expected to be quite as rosy, dairy economists predict in a new report. “For many farmers, 2004 was a very good year,” according to Status of Wisconsin Agriculture 2005, an annual report published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of agricultural and applied economics.