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Apr 16, 20212 min read
USDA Ends Farmers to Families Food Box
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...
Apr 9, 20214 min read
April 09, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Sarina Sharp, Daily Dairy Report It was another big week on LaSalle Street, and nearly all...
Apr 2, 20213 min read
California's Quota Has Been 60-plus Years of Compromise
Courtesy of Hoard's Dairyman Published March 2021 Edition Special by Geoff Vanden Heuvel In the 1960s – at the urging of producers – a...
Apr 2, 20217 min read
April 2, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Spring has sprung across the United States. As the days...
Mar 26, 20214 min read
March 26, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Spot cheese market observers are recovering from whiplash this week after watching the price dip then rally.
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Action Needed to Close the USDA-stimulated Gap Between Class III & IV Milk Prices
Whether intentional – or more likely unintentional – USDA’s operation of the pandemic-inspired Farmers to Families Food Box program...
Mar 19, 20213 min read
March 19, 2021 Friday Report Highlights
The United States dairy herd continues to expand, driving milk production upward. According to USDA’s Milk Production report, released Thurs
Mar 12, 20214 min read
March 12, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Over the past year, the dairy markets have exhibited extreme...
Mar 12, 20211 min read
MPC Remains Committed to Providing Neutral, Timely Coverage on Quota Referendum
As can be imagined, when it is decision time on a controversial issue, passions can be intense. There is a mailing by one of the sides in...
Mar 6, 20213 min read
Quota Referendum Ballots Mailed Out This Week
On March 4, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) mailed ballots to all eligible California dairy producers, giving...
Mar 5, 20217 min read
March 5, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report If there were any doubts about China’s appetite for dairy...
Feb 27, 20214 min read
Insight Into Upcoming Producer Referendum
There was some news this week on the upcoming referendum on the Quota Sunset Proposal. The United Dairy Families of California (UDFC)...
Feb 26, 20218 min read
February 26, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Last year's milk production growth carried into 2021, albeit...
Feb 19, 20216 min read
February 19, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report With nearly three quarters of the United States blanketed by...
Feb 13, 20216 min read
February 12, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Chinese New Year celebrations may be ushering in the Year of...
Feb 12, 20214 min read
Lack of Precipitation Further Complicates California’s Complicated Water System
Here’s this week’s Central Valley water supply headline: We need rain and snow. The storm of a couple of weeks ago did help us get out of...
Feb 6, 20214 min read
February 5, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Not even Punxsutawney Phil’s declaration of an extended...
Jan 30, 20213 min read
Quota Referendum Scheduled for March 4 - June 1, 2021
This week, California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary Karen Ross ordered that a referendum be conducted on the...
Jan 30, 20217 min read
January 29, 2021 MPC Friday Report Highlights
Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Milk is gushing across the United States. USDA’s Milk...
Jan 22, 20213 min read
Food Box Follies
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise…USDA awards less than 25% of the announced $1.5 billion Food Box Program purchases. The dairy industry...
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