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At Madison forum, farmers call for federal probe of dairy industry

For all the complex issues raised at Fridayâ??s workshop on competition in the dairy industry, the question at the heart of it was a simple one: What is happening? Thatâ??s how U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., broke it down to a crowd of about 600 at Union Theater on the UW-Madison campus. The event drew farmers, producers, lobbyists, politicians and economists to discuss a dairy industry that has seen rising production costs and massive milk price fluctuations in recent years.