Excerpt from Dairy Adjustments in the Northeast: An Analysis of Potential Production and Market Equilibrium The rapidity with which these changes are taking place taxes the ability of the dairy industry to adjust. Changes in technology and demand do not affect all farms or all regions equally. A number of so called adjustment problems have arisen a cost-price squeeze, low farm incomes, surplus production in some areas, and deficit production in others. Certain characteristics set apart the Northeast from other major dairy-producing regions. Dairying is the major farm enterprise through out the region. Proximity to major urban areas has provided farmers in the region with a ready market for milk. A complex pattern of State and Federal marketing orders has grown up in the past three decades with administrative methods varying from market to market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.