Report recommends dairy-specific training for regulatory staff.
It will be part of House/Senate Conference Committee negotiations, says Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairperson of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Shipments of non-compliant milk dropped from just under 10% in January 2012 to 6% in June.
The bill contains dairy margin insurance but no market stabilization program.
University of Wisconsin dairy economists discuss dairy market implications.
It’s crunch time in the U.S. Senate, as backers of the most significant revision of immigration law in a generation seek to pass the bill this week.
State’s dairy producers are disappointed with the 12.5-cent price hike.
Farm bill’s defeat in the House throws food and farm programs into limbo.
The vote shows how difficult it will be for Boehner to gain passage of other legislative initiatives, including an immigration law rewrite.
“The action of the Judiciary Committee reflects growing opposition to dairy supply management” --International Dairy Foods Association
The biggest problem may lie in margin insurance, not the market stabilization program.
Current Farm Bill dairy options could be a return of milk over-supply similar to the 1980s, all again financed by government.
With ‘an agreement in principle,’ House lawmakers will begin drafting legislation to be introduced in early June. But hurdles remain.
‘Supply management is antithetical to the future growth of the dairy industry.’ --Cong. Goodlatte and Scott
Dairy Business Association wants congressional leaders to opt for the Dairy Freedom Act as they take up the farm bill this week.
That could set up a struggle to pass a farm bill that will satisfy farmers, environmentalists and nutrition advocates.
The House Ag panel is expected to begin drafting a Farm Bill next Wednesday.
More than 30 dairy foods manufacturers – including some of the largest food companies in the United States – have sent letters to members of the House and Senate opposing supply management.
Consumer Action, the Consumer Federation of America and the National Consumers League urged Senate and House Ag Committees) to reject supply management.
‘What processors claim is a compromise is nothing more than a costly ruse.’ --National Milk Producers Federation
Some 3,000 dairy farms are up for renewal in the coming months.
Inaction puts U.S. “behind the curve."--Jerry Kozak, National Milk Producers Federation.
The state’s dairy producer and processor sectors each say their very survival is at stake if AB31 doesn’t go their way.
When you have a $1 billion asset, you don’t give it up easily.
The proposed legislation would allow California dairy producers to petition USDA for a federal order plus allow them to keep the state’s quota entitlement.
European dairy quotas are scheduled to end in 2015, though recent action challenges that notion.
Co-op also says the dairy title of the next farm bill should include risk management tools for dairy producers.
The groups note that expenditures for animal health are just 7% of those spent on human health initiatives.
Congressional Budget Office estimates the amendment would save $100 million more than the Dairy Security Act.