Digest highlights

• Dairy cows still ‘dry’
• NMPF working on FMMO consensus
• New dairy creamer at Taco Bell
• Holstein Foundation, DMI to host ‘Spring into Action’ youth seminar
• NMPF, IDFA urge increased dairy in school meals

Update highlights

• Class III-IV milk prices continue to climb
• Dairy cull cow marketing remains slower
• Cull cow prices jump
• 2022 hay acreage could be smallest since 1907
• Soybean acreage expected to grow
• Corn, soybean stocks larger
• USDA to begin payments to livestock producers impacted by drought, wildfire

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Editor's note: This article has been updated to include "mailbox" price data from the USDA. Full-year 2021 weighted average “mailbox” prices averaged about $1 per hundredweight (cwt) less than announced average “all-milk” prices for the same period, based on a review of two USDA milk price announcements.

Digest Highlights

• April 2022 Class I base price nears record high
• Vitaliano: Milk production constraints remain
• National Dairy Board nominees sought
• DFA holds annual meeting

Digest highlights

• ADC webinar on FMMO, dairy policy reform is April 5
• IDDBA: Food inflation concerns rose in February
• January fluid sales reviewed
• Bleiberg: Dairy progress possible on Capitol Hill
• GDT price index steadies
• USDA accepting ‘local food for schools’ applications
• USDA, Northwest Seaport Alliance partner to ease port congestion
• Hood plants return to service

Digest highlights

• NMPF seeks ‘deliberate’ approach to FMMO reform
• ‘Dairy Together’ sets Wisconsin rallies to push for policy reform
• Global dairy product price increases continue to rise
• Organic Valley offers Northeast milk market

Update Highlights

• February Class III-IV milk prices higher
• PMVAP payments wrapping up
• U.S. dairy export outlook improves but imports up too
• Dairy cull cow slaughter slowed in January
• November 2021 mailbox, all-milk price spread tightened