USDA released its highly anticipated recommendations for modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Orders on July 1.
“Arriving at a Recommended Decision was no small task,” says Corey Geiger, lead dairy economist for CoBank. Once the 332-page document is published in the Federal Register in mid-July, stakeholders in the dairy industry will have 60 days to submit formal comments and exceptions to USDA’s Recommended Decision.
“The FMMO hearing process took place over a record 49 days, the longest hearing in dairy history,” Geiger notes. As a result, the federal agency poured over 12,000 pages of testimony on the 21 different proposals. In the end, USDA made five major recommendations in its Recommended Decision.
Fran O'Leary
July 15, 2024
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