In December 2021, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack called for consensus from the dairy industry before a federal milk marketing petition landed on his desk. While we cannot say for certain what the secretary had in mind issuing his consensus request, we would s
DFA’s historic founding took place on September 9, 1997, when leaders from four cooperatives met in St. Louis, Mo. On that early fall day, eight men signed paperwork that pledged each organization would go to their membership and gain approval for w
The over-order premium is collected on milk sold at retail and likely generates about $20 million a year. But only half of that money appears to get to farmers, Redding