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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.
The Dairy Promotion Program or National Dairy Checkoff is a United States commodity checkoff program for dairy product promotion, research, and nutrition education as part of a comprehensive strategy to increase human consumption of milk and dairy products and to reduce dairy surpluses, established in 1983.
In 1940, farmers had founded the American Dairy Association (forerunner: the Dairymen’s Union of California, founded in 1891 [5]) to promote U.S. milk products to consumers through advertising. They merged it with the National Dairy Council in 1970. [3] In 1983, the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board was created through Congress. [3]
(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.
The California dairy industry is a significant part of the agricultural output of the state of California. Milk has the highest farm revenue among California agricultural commodities. California ranks first out of the fifty states in dairy production. In 2020 the state had about 1,300 dairy farms and 1.727 million dairy cows. [1]
McAfee's milk is highly regulated by the state of California, which performs frequent testing for food-illness pests such as campylobacter, cryptosporidium, E. coli, listeria, brucella and ...
The California Milk Processor Board was created in 1993 to counter falling sales of milk, as Americans switched to soft drinks, health drinks, and other beverages. [1] It is funded by all California milk processors and administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
May 16—ROCHESTER — Employees at Rochester's Kemps plant approved a new three-year labor contract with "record" raises to guarantee that the ice cream will keep flowing this summer. The new ...