Each month the National Milk Producers Federation and Dairy Management Inc. produce a Dairy Market Report. The January issue is out and highlights U.S. dairy trade and dairy product prices for the first month of 2016. The summary says annual growth in U.S. milk production slowed to less than half a percent during September-October. American-type cheese, dry whey and butter … Read More
Industry Supports New Butter Grading Standards
New grading standards at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) have ended a rule requiring butter sellers to provide a USDA Grading certificate unless requested to do so by a buyer. The change comes following efforts from a task force created in 2015 by the American Butter Institute (ABI), working in close partnership with CME while redrafting the rules and gaining … Read More
Dairy's Role in New Dietary Guidelines
The National Dairy Council, National Milk Producers Federation, International Dairy Foods Association and MilkPEP have joined others in the animal ag community in sharing news from the 2015 federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). For the dairy industry it affirms the contribution made by dairy foods, and reminds Americans that they will continue to benefit from three daily servings of … Read More
December Dairy Market Report
The December Dairy Market Report produced by the National Milk Producers Federation and Dairy Management, Inc. is here. The report states the U.S. average all-milk price, having spent seven months hovering around $16.70 per hundredweight, will likely average about $1 a hundredweight higher during the last four months of the year. In other developments, the U.S. milk production was just … Read More
Animal Ag Reacts to Omnibus Bill
Late last week Congress passed the $1.15 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which funds much of the government through fiscal year 2016. The bill repeals mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) which has been one of the hottest issues in animal agriculture as we wrap up 2015. “USDA will be amending the COOL regulations as expeditiously as possible to reflect the repeal of … Read More
COOL Retaliation – WTO Sets $1.01B in Tariffs
We anticipated this and now it’s here. The World Trade Organization (WTO) announced $1.01 billion retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods authorized in the country-of-origin labeling (COOL) with Canada and Mexico. The WTO has upheld multiple times our neighboring country’s claim that the label creates an unfair advantage to U.S. products. U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee … Read More
Dairy Urges Congress to Fix COOL
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) have urged Congress to eliminate the threat of damaging new tariffs on dairy exports to Canada and Mexico by solving a trade dispute over country-of-origin meat labeling in the massive year-end spending bill currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill. In a letter sent yesterday to House and … Read More
Dairy Applauds Inclusion of Milk in Transportation Bill
The National Milk Producers Federation and International Dairy Foods Association praise Congress for its decision to include in a conference report a dairy-specific amendment that would benefit producers, processors and consumers. The organizations now urge Congress to pass the report so that it can reach President Obama’s desk by the Dec. 4 deadline. The bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Reps. Richard … Read More
November Dairy Market Report
The November issue of the National Milk Producers Federation DMI, Inc. Dairy Market Report is out. The report says the U.S. dairy market outlook has improved from a month earlier, as the rate of milk production growth continued to decline in September. The all-milk price rose by 80 cents per hundredweight, feed prices declined and the Agriculture Department’s monthly margin … Read More
Updated FARM Residue Prevention Manual Released
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has updated and released the latest version of the Milk and Dairy Beef Drug Residue Prevention Manual just in time for the beginning of the Center for Disease Control’s annual Get Smart About Antibiotics Week. The manual is one of the key components of the National Dairy FARM Program, and can be accessed for … Read More