Dairy families and CDFA partner on new ways to reduce methane
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) awarded $9.64 million in grant funding to 17 dairy farms for their proposed projects to improve manure management.
California dairymen petition for price increases
The proposed price increases in milk for different utilizations would raise the pool price – which is currently about $4.70 below the average cost of production — about 35 cents per hundredweight.
By: Carol Ryan Dumas
Source: Capital Press
Link: http://www.capitalpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2018180129980
California Dairy Farmers Seek Emergency Milk Price Increase
Western United Dairymen (WUD) and the California Dairy Campaign (CDC) have petitioned the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) for an emergency hearing to increase over-base milk prices by about 35¢/cwt for the next 12 months. CDFA has 15 days in which to grant or deny the petition for hearing.
By: Jim Dickrell
Source: AgWeb
Link: https://www.agweb.com/article/california-dairy-farmers-seek-emergency-milk-price-increase-naa-jim-dickrell/
California producers approve dairy quota
Farmers have maintained that retention of a quota program was a critical component in adopting the federal milk marketing order system.
By: Carol Ryan Dumas
Source: Capital Press
Link: http://www.capitalpress.com/Dairy/20180105/california-producers-approve-dairy-quota
The California Milk Processor Board Celebrates El Día de los Reyes Magos with Los Angeles' Largest-Ever "Rosca de Reyes"
California’s Leading Panaderías Host Holiday Celebrations with Free Rosca + Milk
By: California Milk Processor Board
Source: PRNewswire
Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-california-milk-processor-board-celebrates-el-dia-de-los-reyes-magos-with-los-angeles-largest-ever-rosca-de-reyes-300572866.html
California Milk Processor Board to Retire Long-Time AOR and Creator of ‘Got Milk?’
Goodby Silverstein & Partners will be replaced by Gallegos United in February.
Got milk? Maybe. Maybe not.
By: Lindsay Rittenhouse
Source: Adweek
Link: http://www.adweek.com/agencies/california-milk-processor-board-to-retire-long-time-aor-and-creator-of-got-milk/
California's Holy-Cow Idea
California wants its dairy farms to capture methane and sell it as truck fuel.
By: The Editors
Source: Bloomberg
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-04/california-s-holy-cow-idea
CDFA extends vote on dairy quota program
The department has sent out 1,054 ballots, and only 400 had been returned before the deadline was extended from Dec. 4 to Dec. 22. At least 51 percent of eligible producers must vote to advance a stand-alone quota program if California joins the federal milk marketing order system.
By: Carol Ryan Dumas
Source: Capital Press
Link: http://www.capitalpress.com/Dairy/20171127/cdfa-extends-vote-on-dairy-quota-program
California Dairy Quota Vote Deadline Extended
California dairy farmers now have until Dec. 22 to mail in their ballots on the proposed Quota Implementation Plan (QIP).
Got Wine? Milk Hijacks Time Inc.'s 'F&W'
California subscribers shouldn’t be concerned that this month’s Food & Wine magazine appears in their mailboxes as Food & Milk. For the first time, the magazine is changing its name as part of a new campaign from the California Milk Processor Board (CMPB). This geo-targeted promotion will reach 92,000 out of the magazine’s 925,000 subscriber […]