TAYLOR – Ten years ago a group of farmers reasoned that getting some milk production out of the system would help their prices. They organized voluntary checkoff money from a group of like-minded members to purchase dairy products, formed a cooperative and then partnered with food pantries that could distribute them to people in need.
This month that grassroots group, Dairy Pricing Association, celebrated the milestone of ten years with a donation of 125,937 pounds of non-fat dry milk powder to help ease hunger around the world while also creating upward pressure on the Class 4 milk market – a part of the market that has recently increased in its importance to the farm milk price received by dairy producers.