The Coca-Cola Company will build a new $650 million fairlife production facility in Monroe County, New York.

March 2023 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program indemnity payments will top $126 million, boosting payments for the first three months of the year to more than $305 million.

January 2023 average “mailbox” prices averaged about 82 cents per hundredweight (cwt) less than announced average “all-milk” prices for the same month.

NMPF will pursue two other components of its FMMO proposal outside of the federal order hearing process.

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

If and once a hearing is granted, multiple steps mean any proposed FMMO changes would be subject to a producer referendum in late summer 2024, at the earliest.

The March 2023 announced U.S. average milk price fell 50 cents from February to $21.10 per cwt, the lowest since November 2021.

Monthly dairy cull cow marketing hit a 36-year high in March, topping 300,000 head for just the third month since the whole-herd buyout program.

Here’s an update on risk management tools available through the USDA and/or USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), as well as other information impacting your milk check.

The March 2023 USDA data summarizes milk production prior to the fire the killed an estimated 18,000 cows at South Fork Dairy in Dimmitt, Texas, on April 10.