Title: Farmers on Strike | Iowa PBS
Headings: Farmers on Strike
Farmers on Strike
Milk Dumping
"Big Bugs" with "Thick Heads"
Some Oppose Strikes

Content: Strikers want other people to realize how much that product or activity is needed. Milk Dumping
In Iowa and other Midwest states some farmers organized milk strikes to protest the low prices they were paid. They blocked the roads to stop delivery of milk and cream to market. If the driver did not turn back, the strikers would dump the milk. Striking farmers were tired of losing money on their products. " Why should we even buy gas to drive our products into town?" they said to each other. " With prices this low, we might as well throw the milk away as haul it to town." "Big Bugs" with "Thick Heads"
Strikers wanted all farmers to unite and join the strike. They believed the protest would attract attention.