Advocacy
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The formula behind the price
Dairy pricing reform has been a quiet advocacy topic for years. With milk prices at unusual highs this spring, members are asking why the formulas underneath them still…
Read postThe small-producer exemption fight isn't over
Members keep asking where the small-producer exemption push stands. Here's the honest answer: further along than a year ago, not resolved yet.
Read postThe pricing formula conversation starting early
A push to reopen the federal milk pricing formulas is picking up early momentum, and the federation wants member experience on record before it hardens into a fixed…
Read postThe recordkeeping rule that's still coming
A federal traceability proposal has been sitting in review since last year. It's not final, but it's worth building your recordkeeping toward now.
Read postWhat sixty days actually buys you
Interstate shipment of raw-milk cheese still hinges on a decades-old aging requirement. Here's what members keep asking us about it, and what we're asking regulators.
Read postThe aging clock lawmakers keep revisiting
A state committee is reopening the minimum aging period for raw-milk cheese this spring. Here's what's on the table, what the federation is asking for, and how to…
Read postThe truck that can't cross the line
A small aged-raw-milk producer's stalled shipment shows why interstate cheese-shipment rules keep landing on our advocacy agenda, and what members can do about it.
Read postThe sixty-day line that decides what crosses a state border
A single aging requirement is the difference between a raw-milk cheese that can ship across state lines and one that can't. Members keep asking us to explain it,…
Read postThe exemption that won't stay put
A federal food-safety compliance threshold is phasing in more small producers this month, and it's a reminder that the exemption your creamery has relied on isn't permanent.
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