The years-long process of updating Federal Milk Marketing Orders finally concluded earlier this year, when final changes went into effect. The Federal Milk Marketing Orders govern how processors purchase milk from dairy farmers in defined marketing areas across the country. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the updating process started a couple years ago.
Munch said the result of that hearing process was a slate of changes intended to modernize federal milk marketing orders.
Munch said that, overall, the impact on farmers has been a mixed bag, with one major negative change.
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