NMPF Says Peterson's Farm Bill Package Right On Target
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 NMPF expressed its strong support for the Farm Bill package unveiled last week by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN), as the Chairman's blueprint largely mirrors the farm policy proposals put forth earlier this spring by NMPF. More ...
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Class III/IV Formula Hearing Ends
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 After convening near Cleveland in February and reconvening in Indianapolis in April, the latest USDA hearing on the Class III and IV price formulas finally wrapped up last week in Pittsburgh. At last week's session, a processor witness fleshed out two IDFA proposals to adjust the protein formula for processing losses and for the lower value of whey butter. More ...
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USDA Estimates Impact of Nonfat Dry Milk Misreporting at $50 Million
 The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has issued a special report containing revisions to their reported nonfat dry milk prices for the 50 weeks ending April 14, 2007 - a report which concludes that reporting errors cost dairy farmers $50 million in lost income. More ... |
USDA Finally Implements Mandatory Price and Inventory Reporting
 USDA has issued an interim rule for mandatory dairy product price and inventory reporting. The rule was published in the Federal Register on July 3, 2007, and goes into effect on August 2, 2007, seven years after Congress first authorized it. The rule will help correct misreporting errors like the one mentioned in the previous story. More ... |
Immigration Reform Prospects Bleak for Remainder of 2008
| The Senate voted twice in the past month against comprehensive immigration reform, leading supports of reform to believe that the prospects for a broad-based reform of immigration laws are negligible. Nevertheless, NMPF is asking its members to thank those 46 Senators who did vote in favor of cloture (and by extension, in favor of the legislation). More ... |
NMPF Urges Congress to Support the Korea FTA
| NMPF has signed on to a letter, along with 34 other agricultural organizations, urging Congress to support the Korea U.S. Free Trade Agreement. The letter explained how America's farmers, ranchers and agribusiness for decades to come would benefit from the nearly $2 billion in U.S farm exports becoming duty-free through the agreement. More ... |
NMPF Writes to FDA about Canadian Milk Shipments into the US
| NMPF recently wrote to the FDA concerning milk shipments by six Canadian dairy farms into New York state. The Canadian dairy farms in question are operating without the appropriate oversight of Canadian government officials, as they are working outside of the Canadian milk quota system. More ... |
Codex Cheese Standard Approved
| At its meeting on July 2-7, the Codex Alimentarius Commission adopted 16 Codex Standards for cheese varieties after endorsement of the labeling provision for mandatory labeling of the Country of Origin in these standards. The adoption of these revised Codex standards reconfirms the generic nature of the cheese varieties concerned and concludes almost 15 years of work to revise them. More ... |
News for Dairy Co-Ops Moving to Monthly Publication
| In an effort to streamline NMPF publications, this newsletter will now be published on the first Monday of every month. The next edition will come out on Monday August, 6th. More ... |
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