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Dairy producers from across the nation celebrated “fairer” milk prices for farmers during the National Milk Producers Federation Board of Directors meeting, which concluded this week.  They also pledged to work together to meet significant challenges on labor, trade, and other issues.  Dairy farmers heard...

The National Milk Producers Federation applauds the bipartisan Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act to help increase kids’ access to milk’s vital nutrients.     The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee reaffirmed in its Scientific Report that most kids and adolescents are not meeting daily dairy intake recommendations,” said NMPF President and CEO Gregg Doud. “Good nutrition is the cornerst... Read Mo

Farm Bill frustration was evident at the recent annual meeting of the National Milk Producers Federation in Phoenix.  “Farming is hard,” NMPF Chair and Missouri farmer Randy Mooney told members gathered for their annual conference that producing is even more difficult without an updated Farm Bill.   “We’ve got a...

The U.S. Dairy Export Council and National Milk Producers Federation expressed their strong disappointment with a preliminary ruling by Colombia’s government that they say unfairly targets U.S. dairy exporters.  They added the move advances "baseless claims" that U.S. milk po...

The USDA released its recommendations for modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Orders last month.   “Overall, we're very pleased with the recommendations that USDA has come up with. We put a lot of proposals into the record," said Stephen Cain, senior director of economic research and analysis for the National Milk Producers Federation.  "So did ...

The House of Representatives have reintroduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act

For decades, the Food and Drug Administration has not enforced its standard of identity for milk, allowing plant-based imitators to use dairy terms. Late last month, the FDA released proposed guidance on the issue.  Alan Bjerga, National Milk Producers Federation Senior Vice President of Communications said the proposal is a good first step.  ...

Earlier this week, Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the second USMCA dispute settlement panel regarding Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quota allocation measures.  The United States is challenging Canada’s revised dairy TRQ allocation measures that use a market-share approach for determining TRQ allocations.  Through these measu...

According to the National Milk Producers Federation and U.S. Dairy Export Council, the record milk prices reported in 2022 likely won’t repeat themselves this year, as production increases and consumers grapple with an economic slowdown.  Mem...

National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern calls the new Waters of the U.S. Rule "cumbersome, unclear and overly complicated."  NMPF released the response earlier this week following the end-of-year announcement of the WOTUS final rule by the EPA.  Th...