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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
In this opinion piece, Constance Cullman with American Feed Industry Association, Mike Seyfert with the National Grain and Feed Association, Jim Mulhern with the National Milk Producers Federation and Chuck Conner with the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives offer a rebuttal to an opinion piece written by former Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla.
Gregg Doud has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation and Steve Mangapit has been selected as the new president of Pinnacle Claims Management, succeeding David Zanze, who retired after 38 years of service.
National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern will retire at the end of the year after a decade at the helm of NMPF and a total of 45 years in the ag industry.
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.
When U.S. consumers want gruyere cheese, they’re seeking a kind of cheese and not demanding that it was produced in the Alpine regions of France or Switzerland. That’s essentially the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which ruled that gruyere is a generic name that can be used by U.S. cheese makers.
New draft guidance from the Food and Drug Administration recommends voluntary nutrient statements to spell out the differences between milk and plant-based alternatives.
The two top U.S. ag trade officials met Monday in Mexico City with high-ranking Mexican government officials over U.S. opposition to a planned Mexican ban on genetically modified corn.
Senior leadership from the International Dairy Foods Association and National Milk Producers Federation met Tuesday with top officials with USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service to share concerns regarding the agency’s proposed cuts to Women, Infants and Children benefits for milk and dairy purchases.
The milk industry is questioning the Food and Drug Administration's continued approval of infant formula imports from foreign manufacturers, even as the crisis begins to ease.