Update highlights

• February 2023 Class I base price on the move again
• December cull dairy cow marketing higher
• Inflation hit dairy aisle in 2022
• November fluid sales stayed on trend
• GDT index dipped
• Coming up

The spread between December Class IV and Class III FMMO milk prices tightened.

December Federal Milk Marketing Order Class II, III and IV milk prices will be announced Jan. 5.

Digest highlights

• CDI acquiring DairyAmerica
• Nominees sought for Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board
• Maryland livestock brokers sentenced
• NMPF updates regulatory issues
• U.S. dairy export outlook updated
• U.S. ag export deficit to grow
• Ag census distribution underway

Digest highlights

Proposed WIC revisions disappointing for dairy

September fluid sales lower

MDVA’s Reames named to EPA advisory committee

NMPF: Infant formula import waiver should expire

The USDA has expanded its Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Projects (HFMIP), a pilot program that helps participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchase more milk.

Digest highlights

• FMMO Forum registration deadline here
• July fluid sales down
• Dairy Defined: Plant-based beverage ‘bust’ is here
• Online organic dairy ‘origin of livestock’ rule training offered
• GDT product prices higher
• Finstad joins U.S. House Agriculture Committee
• Southeast: The Dairy Alliance launches sustainability documentary