DMC indemnity payments will surpass income margins for many dairy producers.

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 May 2023 margin continues to be what looks like a lengthy stretch of extremely small margins and high indemnity payments into July-August.

Weakening Class III price, Class IV depooling will drive May uniform prices

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.

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

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

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.

Following previous action in the House, the Senate passed a Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) resolution of disapproval.