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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall touted many of his organization’s successes in a speech at its annual convention but pressed members for more action on a long list of the group’s priorities.
If the last seven weeks of hearing testimony is any indication, USDA has a major challenge ahead in formulating proposed changes to the federal milk marketing order and balancing the wish lists of dairy producers and processors.
Dairy producers and market participants will be sharing testimony starting Aug. 23 on a wide range of proposals for USDA as it considers updates to the federal milk marketing order.
A key dairy-state lawmaker and Senate Agriculture Committee member hopes the 2023 farm bill will help expand rural broadband service, and he also believes that it's also critical for Congress to address ag labor needs.
Dairy Farmers of America, a major dairy cooperative with 83 processing facilities, had decided to withdraw its membership from the International Dairy Foods Association over IDFA’s decision to proceed with its single-issue petition to modify the federal milk marketing order system.
USDA has scheduled a pre-hearing information session for Friday, June 16, to get more input from the dairy industry on a National Milk Producers Federation petition to amend five provisions of the federal milk marketing order, as well as on a narrower request from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA).
The nation’s largest farm group is throwing its weight behind a petition the National Milk Producers filed with USDA to reform federal milk marketing orders.
The National Milk Producers Federation on Monday petitioned USDA on Monday to consider a comprehensive proposal to overhaul the way milk is priced under federal milk marketing orders.
USDA must decide how it will proceed on conflicting requests from dairy producers and processors to fix what each side sees as problems with the way producers and processors are compensated through federal milk marketing orders.
