Farmers often describe dairy pricing as a complex problem they don't understand.
Creating a system for pricing milk that avoids market volatility was the topic during a meeting Tuesday of the Maryland Dairy Industry Oversight and Advisory Council in Frederick.
The discussion was led by Jay Bryant, CEO and treasurer of the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, an appointee of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to the USDA Dairy Advisory Committee. The committee's task is to find long-term solutions to the industry's boom and bust problems.
Bryant told an audience of about 40 that serious efforts are underway to find consensus on ways to stem pricing volatility in the dairy market that are hazardous to farmers and producers.
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