national milk producers federation

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...

The National Milk Producers Federation commended Congress this week for including the Growing Climate Solutions Act and the SUSTAINS Act in its final fiscal year 2023 budget package.   The measures, NMPF said, will help dairy producers seek additional sustainability opportunities as they work to fulfill the dairy sector’s voluntary, producer-led goal of becoming greenhouse gas neutral or better by

Dairy farmers have a few days left to enroll in the 2023 Dairy Margin Coverage program from USDA.  The enrollment deadline for the 2023 program is December 9th.  Chris Galen of the National Milk Producers Federation said the program is a valuable risk management tool for dairy farmers.   ...

The National Milk Producers Federation sent a letter to lawmakers, including Oregon's Ron Wyden, asking for support of domestic infant formula production as the shortfalls that emptied store shelves of formula have eased.  NMPF said given the improving situation, tariff waivers that could discourage the production of a safe, secure domestic infant formula supply should be allowed to expire at the

The National Milk Producers Federation wants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to speed up the approval of climate-smart feed additives.  The group wants the FDA to modernize its regulations allowing for faster approval of animal feed additives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  The mil...

The dairy industry met in Denver in late October, as part of the Joint Annual Meeting of the National Milk Producers Federation and the United Dairy Industry Association.  The event came during National Cooperative Month, celebrating the more than 40,000 Cooperatives across the United States.  Al...

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...