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Class III Milk: 200,000 lb: USD ($) Chicago Mercantile Exchange: DC Cash-settled Butter: 20,000 lb (~9 metric tons) USD ($) Chicago Mercantile Exchange: CB Non-fat Dry Milk: 44,000 lb (~22 metric tons) USD ($) Chicago Mercantile Exchange: GNF Whole milk powder: 1 metric ton: USD ($) Singapore Exchange: WMP Skim Milk Powder: 1 metric ton: USD ...
Milk used for fluid (Class I) consumption generally receives the highest price and lower minimum prices are paid for the three classes of milk used for manufactured dairy products: Class II (yogurt, cottage cheese, ice cream, and other soft manufactured products), Class III (cheese), and Class IV (butter and nonfat dry milk).
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 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.
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.
In United States agricultural policy, utilization rates refer to the percentage of milk in federal milk marketing orders that is used in each of the classes: Class IV (butter and nonfat dry milk), Class III (), Class II (all other manufactured products), Class I (milk used for fluid consumption).
The Minnesota-Wisconsin price (M-W price), prior to May 1995, was a component of the basic formula price for farm milk formerly used in federal milk marketing orders. It represented a survey of the average price Minnesota and Wisconsin plants were paying farmers for Grade B milk to be used in processed dairy products.
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