Thirty-three years ago, while seeking votes for his second presidential campaign in rural Wisconsin, Jerry Brown was hit with questions about federal milk-price policy, no small matter in a state of self-proclaimed "cheeseheads."
Brown muttered something that sounded sympathetic to politically influential dairy farmers, and Wisconsin voters later gave him his only delegate to the 1980 Democratic convention.
Brown no longer yearns for the White House, but he's back in the governorship and also back in the politics of milk – a firefight between California dairy farmers and cheese makers over prices.
Since the Great Depression, the state has directly controlled minimum prices that dairy farmers must receive for milk, which, of course, translate into what consumers later pay for dairy products.
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