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Arizona Dairyman Down but Not Out

Written by Subject: Domestic Policy
In two earlier articles, I detailed a real David v. Goliath story that has been taking place below the radar in Yuma, Arizona.

The Yuma Sun has the latest...

Local dairyman sues the federal government — again

BY JOYCE LOBECK, SUN STAFF WRITER

Oct 15, 2006, 11:17 pm

Hein Hettinga, a Yuma-area dairyman, says all he's doing is keeping the price of milk down.

But he has to fight the federal government to do it.

Hettinga has filed a lawsuit against the federal government protesting a law passed last spring by Congress that requires him to conform to federal milk marketing regulations.

"I had to do it," he said of his lawsuit filed recently in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. "I felt I was wronged. I'm crying foul..."

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