The Planned Destruction of the American Dairy Farmer

A public hearing was held at the Fire Hall in Lairdsville, Pennsylvania, on July 24 to voice concern over the current financial crisis facing dairy farm families throughout America–aptly termed, the economic “Dairy Depression”.

California Dairies, Inc., Dairy Farmers of America and Land O'Lakes, Inc. Announce Unified Support of the California Federal Milk Marketing Order

The three largest milk marketing cooperatives in California, California Dairies, Inc. (CDI), Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Land O’Lakes, Inc., today announced that, on behalf of their respective members, they have voted in support of the California Federal Milk Marketing Order (CA-FMMO) as proposed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Federal milk order could boost California prices slightly

Producer milk prices under the new California Federal Milk Marketing Order, if approved, estimated to rise about 15 cents per hundredweight. Protein formula would change under the USDA proposal under consideration by dairy producers.

Quota passage clears path for Calif. FMMO

California dairy producers are celebrating the outcome of the referendum and getting one huge step closer to abandoning the state milk marketing order for inclusion in the federal system.
By: Carol Ryan Dumas
Source: Capital Press
Link: http://www.capitalpress.com/California/20180108/quota-passage-clears-path-for-calif-fmmo

California milk order clears another hurdle

Now entering its third year, the process to establish a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) potentially cleared another hurdle. To the outside world, that hurdle may have been small, but to California dairy producers, it represented an important benchmark. BY COREY GEIGER.