The comment period deadline is Feb. 15 on the development of a potential U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule covering animal waste air emission reporting requirements.

Here’s an update on news impacting your dairy as we celebrate Thanksgiving 2023.

Although MLP support is targeted for individual producers, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is urging cooperatives that spread losses across their membership to inquire about eligibility.

EPA has recently released further amendments concerning Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) guidelines that, while a step in the right direction, still leave much to be desired by ag industry stakeholders.

The new WOTUS rule revises the January 2023 definition to eliminate the “significant nexus” standard to determine when waters or wetlands are covered by the Clean Water Act, as well as the definition of “adjacent wetlands.”

"Dairy" labeling attention turns to "synthetic" products.

With a USDA action deadline nearing, more dairy cooperatives and producer organizations have joined in support of a FMMO hearing and proposed reforms from the National Milk Producers Federation.

The decision released May 25 and written by Justice Samuel Alito halted the agency’s authority under the CWA to regulate “navigable waters of the U.S.” in a fashion that applies authority and penalties on all wetlands near bodies of water, even those indistinguishable from regular geographic land.

The EPA is considering rescinding a 2019 reporting exemption of air emissions from animal waste.