The state Department of Agriculture , bowing to pressure from Meadow Gold Dairies, unanimously approved a 23 percent drop in the state-set wholesale milk price paid to the last locally owned dairy.
Hawaii island's Cloverleaf Dairy owner Ed Boteilho Jr . said he may be forced to close his dairy.
"I may close down the milking part," he said. "What you're seeing and what has taken place is actually a destruction of a longtime family business by the powers that be, including Meadow Gold, who has so much manipulating power that it's take it or leave it."
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