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

• National FFA announces dairy proficiency winners
• July all-milk, mailbox price gap averaged 90 cents
• Michigan dairy producers approve checkoff continuation
• Maine PFAS Fund Advisory Committee to meet
• Ag producer sentiment weaker
• GDT product prices decline further

Price movement didn’t necessarily follow state-level patterns where dairy cow numbers are changing.

The checkoff’s approach to telling your story relies on compelling content that helps maintain and bolster trust in milk and dairy foods, dairy farmers and the dairy community. And continued progress around sustainability and environmental stewardship is a topic that people increasingly care about. 

Two of the most heated topics – depooling and producer price differentials (PPDs) – aren’t likely to be part of a national FMMO hearing.

Impacts of higher processing costs could drive the spread between all-milk and mailbox prices wider.

It is election time again. Ads splatter every channel with “vote-for-me” slogans and promises. Truth is shaped to an advantage and lies are disseminated as gospel, and we are expected to decipher which candidate is the lamb and which is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.

You are ready to perform the first hydraulic fluid change on your 2-year-old utility tractor.