Despite its diversity, dairy farmers and others involved in the dairy industry around the globe share similar challenges. On June 1, World Milk Day 2017 will strive to highlight dairy’s collective importance and create opportunities for growth.

The National Dairy Producers Organization (NDPO) will offer members financial incentives to improve milk quality, according to Mike Eby, the organization’s board chairman.

USDA’s monthly World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report made another cut to the 2017 U.S. milk production forecast, with a slowdown in the growth of milk per cow. Despite the reduction, USDA narrowed projected 2017 milk and dairy product prices, adjusting overall prices down slightly.

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U.S. public schools will get greater leeway in meeting meal program nutritional requirements, and students will get more flavorful dairy options as a result of a USDA proclamation and the recently signed federal spending bill.

A court ruling concerning “hazardous substance” emissions has removed reporting requirement exemptions for some livestock farms and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). However, what happens next is still up in the air, according to Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, assistant professor and Extension agricultural law specialist with Texas A&M Agrilife Extension.

It started out as a year dairy farmers optimistically thought they would see milk prices rise. For some, it’s now turning into an urgent search to find markets for their milk.

When your dairy checkoff changed its basic strategy from simply doing generic advertising and promotions to working with partners that handle your milk, very few people probably realized what a huge impact on sales it would mean.

Although the 2014 Farm Bill doesn’t expire until Sept. 30, 2018, the 115th Congress has already begun work on its reauthorization. A piece of the 2018 Farm Bill likely to most directly impact the landscape for dairy producers is the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy), also set to expire in September 2018.

Two more bills addressing foreign-born agricultural workers have been introduced in the U.S. Senate.