Controversy has surrounded Clean Water Act regulatory efforts for decades.

December Federal Milk Marketing Order Class II, III and IV milk prices will be announced Jan. 5.

Digest highlights

• USTR to press for Canadian USMCA dairy compliance
• Canadian dairy farmers to receive fourth DDPP payment
• Fed raises interest rates
• GDT index falls
• 2022 Census of Agriculture response deadline is Feb. 6, 2023
• Other news, briefly

Just 424 out of nearly 3.7 million milk samples tested positive for animal drug residues in the FDA’s annual analysis. Those samples testing positive were rejected for human consumption. That works out to be only one out of every 8,702 samples.

The number of milk cows on U.S. farms was estimated at 9.42 million head in November, the highest number since August 2021.

With recent forecasts predicting lower milk prices and tighter dairy income margins ahead, is 2023 the year you explore dairy risk management options? 

Progressive Dairy summarizes issues in the news and attempts to describe how they might affect dairy farmers.

Class IV pooling across all FMMOs represented about 7% of the total milk pooled. It was the ninth month so far in 2022 that Class IV pooling was below 10% of total milk pooled.