Dairy producers have approved a series of modifications to federal milk marketing orders, including reversing a change to milk pricing that was made in the 2018 farm bill. USDA’s Agricultural ...

Dairy groups across the United States are currently working on proposals to overhaul the Federal Milk Marketing Orders. For years, the orders have put Midwestern dairy producers at a significant ...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted plenty of commodity markets and some of the most glaring examples occurred in the dairy industry where losses exceeded $725 million, according to the National Milk ...

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LEWISTON, Minn. — Mitch Thompson delivered milk to his processor this month that ended up in a nearby field, and Carey and Emily Tweten were pushed to sell spot loads at a heavily discounted rate.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced $58 million available for marketing assistance to eligible organic dairy producers through the Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program ...

Discussions of Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) modernization are well underway. Letters, policy proposals, webinars and petition notices have overloaded the inboxes of dairy farmers and others in ...

Organic dairy farmers are taking their concerns over federal milk pricing to court, seeking exemption from the Federal Milk Marketing Order system and compensation for payments they say were wrongly ...

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Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...

This is the second article in a multipart series following developments in Federal Milk Marketing Orders. The first, released in April 2023, can be accessed here. If you’re involved in the dairy ...