With the National Milk Producers Federation requesting an emergency hearing from the US Department of Agriculture on changing the nation's milk pricing system, many in the dairy industry are wondering what can actually be done.
A Hoard's Dairyman webinar featured a panel of FMMO experts offering their thoughts on what can and may happen with the emergency hearings and how to best go about it.
Panel guests included Ed Gallagher, president of risk management for Dairy Farmers of America; Al Zolin, manager of dairy consulting firm Zolin International; Erin Taylor, acting director of order formulation and enforcement for USDA Agricultural Marketing Service; and Chris Wolf, an agricultural economist with Cornell University.