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.

The 2022 hay crop has been made. Those marketing and moving it face plenty of challenges.

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