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These purchase prices are set high enough to enable dairy processors to pay farmers at least the support price for the milk they use in manufacturing these products. The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 1501) mandated a support price of $9.90/ cwt , effective through December 31, 2007, when the program by law was scheduled to expire.
As of 2018, the California dairy industry was the single largest milk producer in the United States with 20% of U.S. milk production [2] with milk sales of about $6.3 billion, and processed dairy products (wholesale) of about $22.2 billion. [2]: 10 Among California agricultural commodities, milk has the highest farm revenue. [2]: 13
Up until 2004, California dairy farmers, co-funded the Got Milk? campaign through Dairy Management Inc. [2] As of 2014, Got Milk? had not reversed the trend of people buying and using less and less milk: from 0.96 cups per person in 1970 to 0.59 cups in 2011.
FILE - Bottles of raw milk are displayed for sale at a store in Temecula, Calif., on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/JoNel Aleccia, file) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(The Center Square) – One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy groups says the latest milk marketing proposal isn’t a win-win for Wisconsin dairy farmers, but it’s not a guaranteed loss either.
California state officials have suspended a company’s sales of raw milk to retailers amid ongoing concerns about bird flu.. Raw milk sales by Raw Farm, located in Fresno, was blocked from ...
The 1996 Farm Bill required the USDA to consolidate the number of federal milk marketing orders and to revise the method by which minimum class prices are determined. The USDA implemented these changes in 2000. There are now 10 milk marketing orders, down from 31 when the law was enacted.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has issued a statewide recall of raw milk produced and packaged by Valley Milk Simply Bottled after H5N1 bird flu virus was found in samples from ...