Digest highlights

• August-September DMC payments near $85 million
• WCMA endorses FMMO improvement provisions
• Western organic dairies seek financial assistance

The USDA has expanded its Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Projects (HFMIP), a pilot program that helps participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchase more milk.

Dairy heifer and embryo and hay export totals were lower.

A narrower gap in October Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) Class IV and Class milk prices starts to reduce the incentive to depool Class IV milk.

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

Price movement didn’t necessarily follow state-level patterns where dairy cow numbers are changing.

Reminder: Dairy producers can enroll and make 2023 DMC coverage elections through Dec. 9 at USDA Farm Service Agency offices.

Two of the most heated topics – depooling and producer price differentials (PPDs) – aren’t likely to be part of a national FMMO hearing.

• NMPF endorses FMMO modernization provisions
• November 2022 Class I base price rebounds
• USDA expands SNAP Dairy Incentive Program 
• Vitaliano: Production growth evident
• Dairy cull cow marketing down in September
• USDA establishing regional networks for organic transition
• September DMC numbers coming next Monday