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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
In this opinion piece, Tim Trotter, CEO of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, explains why producers should support USDA's reforms to federal milk marketing orders, even though the department didn't go far enough.
The National Milk Producers Federation made quick work of its search for a new top executive, announcing Wednesday the selection of Gregg Doud to be the next president and CEO.
In all of agriculture the method of U.S. milk pricing is unmatched in complexity and inequity. Only expert dairy economists, a few U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel and a handful of industry experts can detail the antiquated rationale of federal milk pricing that has failed to keep pace with the technology, consumption patterns and use of farm milk in today’s economy.
Representatives of the nation’s dairy producers say they’d like the chance to contribute to hearings that would take place under new legislation offered in the Senate.
The Biden administration’s offer of pandemic assistance to dairy producers, coupled with a return to more normal markets, has helped quiet a battle in the industry over the future of the federal milk pricing system - at least for now.
Some dairy producers and farmer cooperatives used a Senate hearing Wednesday to call for changes to the federal milk pricing system, while an independent processor said the system should be disbanded.
