by Richard A. Levins, Professor Emeritus of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. I’ve been writing lately about how the size and number of dairy farms have a big role in how dairy policy actually plays out in practice. The same thing goes for other parts of the dairy industry. Recent issues of Hoard’s Dairyman put the spotlight on both dairy processors and dairy cooperatives. The trend toward fewer and bigger businesses, not to mention overlap among the