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The Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (P.L. 98–180, Title I) authorized the Dairy Promotion Program. The national dairy checkoff started in 1983 as an optional program for dairy farmers to contribute to increase demand for dairy products. As of 2011, the program was no longer optional; dairy producers must contribute to the program.
A 1978 national survey by the Food and Nutrition Service found similar: the program raised student milk consumption by 42% in participating schools. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In 2008, 4,676 schools and residential child care institutions participated in the Special Milk Program, along with 743 summer camps and 522 non-residential child care institutions.
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.
Dairy Farmers of America Inc. (DFA) is a national milk marketing cooperative in the United States. DFA markets members' raw milk and sells milk and derivative products (dairy products, food components, ingredients and shelf-stable dairy products) to wholesale buyers both domestically and abroad. Net sales in 2016 were $13.5 billion ...
The Dairy Council of California (formerly called California Dairy Council) was established on February 8, 1919. The organization was conceived during San Francisco Bay ferryboat commuter trips by two well-known California dairy industry leaders, Sam H. Greene and Chester Earl Gray after reading about discoveries in the field of nutrition in the early 1900s.
A rotary milking parlor at a modern dairy facility in Germany Dairy farm near Bangor, Wisconsin. Dairy farming is a class of agriculture for the long-term production of milk, which is processed (either on the farm or at a dairy plant, either of which may be called a dairy) for the eventual sale of a dairy product.
Northwest Dairy Association (formerly the Northwest Dairymen's Association; trading as Darigold, Inc.) is an American dairy agricultural marketing cooperative. Headquartered in Seattle , Washington, [ 1 ] it is owned by about 350 dairy farm members of the association located in Washington , Oregon , Idaho , and Montana .