State vows to privatize Mat Maid
Source: By Greg Johnson, Frontiersman (AK), August 28, 2007
MAT-SU - Alaska may be near to milking its last cow.
The state Board of Agriculture and Conservation decided Monday to privatize Matanuska Maid Dairy and get the state out of the dairy business.
....... Mat Maid has been producing Alaska-grown milk for 71 years and was a private cooperative until 1985, when financial pressures prompted the state to buy the dairy out of bankruptcy.