The USDA makes 5 recommendations for the Federal Milk Marketing Orders in the US

Published 2024년 7월 15일

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The USDA has released its recommendations for modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Orders, including changes to the 'make allowance', Class I pricing for beverage milk, Class I differentials, milk composition factors, and the Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program. These recommendations, which come after a record 49-day hearing and over 12,000 pages of testimony, will now be open for comment for 60 days. After considering these comments, the USDA will release its Final Decision, which will be voted on by dairy producers. If passed, these changes will be implemented in middle of 2025, except for the milk composition factors, which will be implemented 12 months after any FMMO updates.

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USDA released its highly anticipated recommendations for modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Orders on July 1. “Arriving at a Recommended Decision was no small task,” says Corey Geiger, lead dairy economist for CoBank. Once the 332-page document is published in the Federal Register in mid-July, stakeholders in the dairy industry will have 60 days to submit formal comments and exceptions to USDA’s Recommended Decision. “The FMMO hearing process took place over a record 49 days, the longest hearing in dairy history,” Geiger notes. As a result, the federal agency poured over 12,000 pages of testimony on the 21 different proposals. In the end, USDA made five major recommendations in its Recommended Decision. “The ‘make allowance,’ or the cost to manufacture milk into dairy products like butter, cheese or yogurt, was one of the five major recommendations made by USDA,” Geiger explains. “Last updated in 2000, the Recommended Decision contains a higher make allowance than those ...

Source: Farm Progress