Yesterday, Representative Jim Costa (D-16) hosted a listening session...

The Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) started in California on November 1, 2018, which means we have been operating under the FMMO...

There seems to be an uptick in complaining about Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs), with a fair amount of calling for “reform” of...

It’s always a bit tricky as a dairyman trying to figure out how to manage risk – particularly on the milk income side. The current...

USDA announced some improvements in the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program, which is the dairy safety net program that provides...

Three weeks ago, I wrote about Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s announcement of a USDA compensation program designed to provide money...

Back when Syp Vander Dussen was MPC’s Board Chairman and Rob Vandenheuvel was our General Manager, Milk Producers Council spent...

When the pandemic hit in the Spring of 2020, nationwide stay-at-home orders greatly impacted the dairy industry along with huge sectors...

USDA requires all U.S. dairy manufacturing plants who produce more than 1 million pounds per year of butter, nonfat dry milk, block...

Last week I wrote about additional pandemic aid USDA will be providing dairy farmers, including an idea that payments should be targeted...

On June 15, 2021, USDA announced its intention “to address a number of gaps and disparities in previous rounds of aid” with remaining...

When USDA last performed a major overhaul of the FMMO classified milk pricing formula in the year 2000, it created separate formulas for...

It’s dry. There has not been much moisture this past winter and surface water deliveries to the Central Valley this summer will be small...

The USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program started in May of 2020 as an emergency COVID-19 response program to get food to people in...

Whether intentional – or more likely unintentional – USDA’s operation of the pandemic-inspired Farmers to Families Food Box program...

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise…USDA awards less than 25% of the announced $1.5 billion Food Box Program purchases. The dairy industry...

On January 4, in a surprise move, USDA announced another round of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. This program...

Sarina did a good job of outlining what we know about the dairy-specific provisions of the recently passed and signed COVID Relief Bill...

Is there a correlation between butter inventories and butter prices? It would seem obvious that there is. We know that our government...

Bulk butter inventories surged when the pandemic hit in March. The reason was obvious. Restaurants and institutional food service...