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.

Top Protein, a 3-year-old startup company with decades of protein knowledge, has created dairy-based meat made from milk.

Even with the fire loss, Texas cow numbers were up 5,000 head from a year ago.

With the current academic year winding down, there’s no recess in the debate over flavored milk options served in school meal programs.

Based on Class III-IV milk futures prices, depooling incentives flip back to Class IV milk handlers in May and June.

Corn and soybean meal price projections are lower, but on-farm hay inventories are down.

The Coca-Cola Company will build a new $650 million fairlife production facility in Monroe County, New York.

On a milk solids equivalent, March 2023 dairy product exports fell below the same month a year earlier, ending an 11-month streak of year-over-year gain.

March 2023 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program indemnity payments will top $126 million, boosting payments for the first three months of the year to more than $305 million.

Weaker milk prices and tighter milk margins have curtailed escalating national average cow prices.