Another deadline has arrived for the long process of modernizing the federal milk marketing order system. Final formal legal briefs had to be received by USDA April 1st.
Peter Vitaliano with the National Milk Producers Federation tells Brownfield they have given the USDA its documents outlining how the federal milk marketing orders should be modernized. He says it’s a summary of their arguments presented in the 49-day-long Carmel, Indiana hearing. “It’s sort of your last chance to frame your arguments, what you are proposing to do, what you want USDA to do to change the order provisions and to some extent also why you think that the folks that were opposing you don’t have good arguments.”
Vitaliano says National Milk Producers Federation submitted their final arguments for their proposals and against some proposals they say would be detrimental to dairy farmers.
