USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service just issued a partial final rule that amends the Appalachian and Southeast milk marketing orders. Here’s an excerpt from that partial final rule.
SUMMARY: This partial final rule amends the Appalachian and Southeast marketing orders. Specifically, the final rule expands the Appalachian milk marketing area, eliminates the ability to simultaneously pool the same milk on the Appalachian or Southeast order and on a State-operated milk order that has marketwide pooling, and amends the transportation credit provisions of the Southeast and Appalachian orders. The amendments are based on record evidence of a public hearing held
February 2004. More than the required number of dairy farmers approved the issuance of the amended orders.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 1, 2005.