Thirty-one school districts in northwest Iowa will share over 141-thousanddollars in the settlement of a “price-fixing” case. Bob Brammer, aspokesman for Iowa’s Attorney General, says the settlement stems from a caseinvolving Wells Dairy of LeMars.Brammer says the dairy conspired to raise the price of milk charged to theschools.Land O’ Lakes dairy in Minnesota made a payment of 43-thousand dollars to33 Iowa school districts last year in the same case. Brammer believes theWells Dairy payment will close the case.The payments will go to 13 public and 18 private schools in Lyon, Sioux,O’Brien and Osceola counties.
