Dairy producers might be closer to getting a hearing to discuss milk pricing issues.
Jim Mulhern with the National Milk Producers Federation tells Brownfield their board has spent the past year and a half working on the federal order modernization effort. “We look forward this year to now taking these proposals that were adopted by our board and putting them in the form of a proposal to take to USDA for requesting a national federal order hearing.”
Mulhern says the federal orders have not undergone significant change in more than twenty years, and like any program, it needs to be updated regularly.
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