Wisconsin dairy economists are predicting 2020 will be a recovery year for the industry after years of low prices.
September milk production was 0.6 percent higher than the same month last year, according to the latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nationally, September milk production was 1.6 percent higher than in 2018.
The production increase comes after several months of declines from 2018 levels.
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Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, one of the largest dairy co-ops in the country, stressed flexibility and fairness today in announcing its priorities for reforming the federal milk pricing system. …
Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, the third largest dairy cooperative in the country based on milk volume, hosted a workshop on meaningful milk pricing reform in northwest Iowa this week. The session aimed to shed light on the cooperative’s efforts to reform the U.S. milk pricing system through the Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing process and legislatively through the farm bill. American Foods Group sponsored the event. …
Farm Bill discussions are underway, including the future of federal milk pricing. In fact, there is some unfinished business from the previous Farm Bill with consensus among dairy producers and organizations to return the Class I pricing formula to its previous ‘higher of’ method that was changed legislatively to an ‘averaging’ method in the last Farm Bill. That change did not go through a hearing process or a producer referendum. …
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