Here is a look at news affecting a dairy producer's bottom line: Class I base price falls for December, GDT index up 1.9%, USDA extends application deadline for Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance until Dec. 13, and SNAP Healthy Fluid Milk Incentive program expands to 1,150 stores in 32 states by 2025.

Thirteen states including Texas, Idaho and South Dakota boosted milk production a combined 258 million pounds in October.

The USDA’s World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report offers forecasts for dairy, beef and feedstuffs.

Strong demand for U.S. dairy products around the global, with the exception of China, propelled year-over-year dairy exports forward by 8.5% in September. Here’s Progressive Dairy’s 30,000-foot look at dairy-related export categories.

According to the USDA Cattle on Feed report published Oct. 25, total U.S. inventory of cattle on feed for the slaughter market on Oct. 1 was 11.6 million head, a slight drop from the same report in 2023.

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its Agricultural Prices report Oct. 31, which includes feed costs used to calculate the September Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program margins and indemnity payments. The month’s margin was $15.57 per hundredweight (cwt).

Dairy cull cows marketed through U.S. slaughter plants in September lowest since 2007.