Class III

Earlier this week, National Milk Producers Federation leadership unanimously endorsed a proposal to modernize the Federal Milk Marketing Order milk-pricing system.  The plan includes returns to the "higher of" Class I mover, discontinuing including barrel cheese in the protein component price formula.  It exte...

Production forecasts for U.S. dairy for this calendar year, and next, both rose in the USDA’s latest outlook.   “Both years, we raised by 400 million pounds, so we’re looking at 227 billion pounds milk production for the current calendar year, and 229.2 billion pounds for n...

New legislation introduced last week in the Senate calls for Federal Milk Marketing Order hearings addressing Class I milk pricing. Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and Republican Susan Collins of Maine introduced the bipartisan Dairy Pricing Opportunity Act ...

Earlier this week, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced she is moving forward with a dairy pricing hearing. The New York Democrat announced permission was granted for a hearing in the U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee she chairs on Dairy, Livestock, Poultry, Local Food Systems, Food Safety and Security ...

FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative has submitted a proposal to the USDA to revert back to an old pricing order. The organization would like to revert back to using the “higher of” the Class III or Class IV price in calculating the Class I mover in Federal Milk Marketing Orders if USDA’s AMS grants a national emergency hearing to address the Class I mover issue. FarmFirst Gener ...