Milk prices plateaued but feed costs continued to rise in June, cutting into monthly dairy producer milk income over feed cost (IOFC) margins calculated under the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program.

• Summer repeat: July Class IV milk price stays strong, adding to depooling incentives
• FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative hosting FMMO webinar, Aug. 11
• AFBF sets FMMO Forum in Kansas City, Oct. 14-16
• Podcast covers Edge dairy policy priorities
• ‘Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act’ advances out of committee
• Hearing planned on Pennsylvania ‘over-order’ premium
• Southeast Milk selects Dyal as CEO
• Tillamook announces ‘climate action’ plan
• Borden closing two more Southeast plants
• Organic Valley adds 51 Northeast farms
• Dairy adds to call for ag workforce reform bill

If comments during an initial round of listening sessions are an indicator, risk management and additional support for both domestic nutrition and dairy trade programs will be points of dairy emphasis during development of the 2023 Farm Bill.

Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has been named in another lawsuit over alleged antitrust activities related to milk marketing practices in the Northeast.

Scientists, industry professionals and others within the international dairy science community gathered in Kansas City June 19-22 for the American Dairy Science Association’s (ADSA) first in-person annual meeting since 2019.

Ensuring forage quality and nutritional value over the long winter months is a yearlong process. The minute forage is cut, it begins to lose nutritional value. There is no way to increase quality from this moment on.

Average U.S. agricultural land values and cropland rental rates increased substantially in 2022. Based on USDA surveys conducted in early June, U.S. farm real estate value, a measurement of the value of all land and buildings on farms, averaged $3,800 per acre for 2022, up $420 per acre (12.4%) from 2021.