Byline: ROBERT IMRIE and WILSON RING Associated Press
WAUSAU, Wis. -- With reluctance and concern over costs, dairy farmers have approved a plan to overhaul the way milk is priced around the country.
The Agriculture Department proposal would be expected to lower prices slightly for consumers.
More than 90 percent of Northeastern farmers who cast ballots on the new system voted in favor of it, but that's only because the alternative -- no federal pricing mechanism -- would cost them even more money.
``We agreed to get shot in the foot rather than shot in the head,'' said Bob Wellington, an economist with the Massachusetts-based Agri-Mark …
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