The Nation - News from May 1, 1986

A federal judge in Lubbock, Tex., issued a preliminary injunction limiting the federal program that pays dairymen to slaughter their cattle. The injunction orders the Department of Agriculture to limit the number of animals sent to market. The action grew out of a suit filed in April by beef cattle producers from Texas and Montana upset over falling prices. They said the program, designed to reduce dairy herds and cut surplus milk production, had cost the cattle industry $25 million in lost revenues during the first week of April.