Transcripts of hearing testimony to consider changes in three Southeast U.S. Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMO) are now available.

Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed guidance allowing plant-based beverages to use "milk” in labels and marketing, multiple dairy state lawmakers have introduced a bill to nullify it.

Digest highlights

• CDI acquiring DairyAmerica
• Nominees sought for Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board
• Maryland livestock brokers sentenced
• NMPF updates regulatory issues
• U.S. dairy export outlook updated
• U.S. ag export deficit to grow
• Ag census distribution underway

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

The annual National Cooperative Bank survey showed dairy co-ops made up 16 of the Top 100 cooperatives for revenue in 2021. There were probably more.

Last June, I was looking for an audiobook that would give me some ideas for promoting June Dairy Month and happened to find The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz. My life changed. My view on what I put in my body changed. I was appalled by what's happened in America over the last 70 years and how the health of Americans is crashing in a downward spin.