<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[MilkProducersCouncil]]></title><description><![CDATA[MilkProducersCouncil]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:15:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Milk continues to gush across the U.S., though the pace of growth has slowed somewhat. USDA’s most recent Milk Production report, released earlier this week, showed that volumes across the U.S. ticked up by 2.3% year over year in May. Once adjusted for component growth the increase is likely to be even larger. While still strong by historical standards, this is actually the lowest year over year increase since April 2025. The country’s largest dairy states continued to record gains relative...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-214</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a417ec297220de384b1d13c</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:08:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Monica Ganley</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ink ran red on LaSalle Street once again this week. The milk powder market led the retreat, with dramatic declines in CME spot nonfat dry milk (NDM) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. But the bulls evinced some cautious optimism on Thursday, the last trading day of this holiday-shortened week, when spot NDM found a toehold and inched up slightly. Spot NDM finished the week at $1.64 per pound, down 14.5ȼ from last Friday.]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-213</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a358bc7026da8a303c0334d</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:37:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[What goes up must come down, and the milk powder market is no exception to the laws of gravity. This week, CME spot nonfat dry milk (NDM) demonstrated Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, the one that describes equal and opposite reactions. Spot NDM dropped just as quickly anddramatically as it soared. It fell 26ȼ in five trading sessions to $1.785 per pound, a three-month low. U.S. milk powder exports held steady in April as merchants delivered on deals booked several months before, when...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-212</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2cc91b44c7bef1d02f452a</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:09:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dairy markets are falling under the weight of heavy milk production. CME spot nonfat dry milk (NDM) dropped 4.5ȼ this week to $2.045 per pound. Every NDM futures contract settled south of $2, far below the spot market’s spring peak at nearly $2.30. Spot whey powder fell 3ȼ this week to 67ȼ, its lowest price since late March. CME spot Cheddar blocks slipped 0.25ȼ to $1.4725, a fresh three-month low. But butter bucked the trend. It climbed 2.5ȼ to $1.6925.]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-211</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a233e1d3919feaaedf96270</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:25:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a heart-stopping plunge off the cliff, the milk powder markets found a ledge and clambered upward. CME spot nonfat dry milk (NDM) regained 1.75ȼ this week and closed at $2.09 per pound. That’s well below the recent peak, but it’s a historically lofty perch from which the market can pause, catch its breath, and determine if it has the strength to keep climbing, or if it should continue the descent toward historically normal levels that are far below today’s prices. ]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-210</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1c66fd7ab417a19fbe1c10</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:54:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Resiliency Summit Recap]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent two days this week at the San Joaquin Valley Water Resiliency Summit at Fresno State. I was on a panel on day one talking about the Water Blueprint’s Unified Valley Water Plan and how it might fit into the State of California’s Water Plan 2028. ]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/water-resiliency-summit-recap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a10f521a2438924d10dc213</guid><category><![CDATA[Water]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:35:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Geoff Vanden Heuvel</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Wile E. Coyote plummets off a cliff, Warner Brothers inevitably plays a “descending slide whistle.” That heart-dropping sound echoed across LaSalle Street this week as the bottom fell out of the milk powder market. The short squeeze is over. The two milk powder manufacturers who were desperately bidding for product to meet the commitments they could not fill with their own supplies due to food safety recalls have likely caught up and are back to using their own powder. And sky-high...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-209</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a10f374a2438924d10dbf21</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:29:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dairy markets retreated this week, led by a 6.75ȼ drop in Cheddar blocks. CME spot Cheddar closed at $1.555 per pound, within a tic of its lowest price in two months. Cheesemakers continue to crank out product. Domestic demand is climbing, but not as quickly as production. In the first quarter, U.S. cheese output was 3.1% greater than the year before, while domestic consumption climbed 2.3%. Exports absorbed the surplus and then some. But the industry can’t count on exports to use up our...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-208</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a10f28d8fa816dacc7fbcf1</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copy of Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nonfat dry milk (NDM) remains the belle of the dairy ball as prices rose to fresh record highs this week. On Thursday, the spot price hit an all-time peak of $2.295/lb. though the price dipped a half cent on the final day of trading. By the conclusion of Friday’s spot session, NDM was up 2.75¢ from last week. While elevated NDM price levels have provided an encouraging lift to Class IV milk prices, they have also made U.S. milk powder uncompetitive compared to other international suppliers...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/copy-of-milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ffdf6d4f7ebdc9f6ae5f69</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Monica Ganley</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tiny bit of air leaked out of the spot milk powder market, and the entire dairy complex deflated. CME spot nonfat dry milk (NDM) notched an all-time high on Tuesday at $2.265 per pound. Prices slipped Wednesday and Thursday and then bounced back on Friday. Spot NDM closed the week at $2.2625, just a hairsbreadth off the high and up 0.25ȼ for the week.]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-207</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f64968edf5696920d529c4</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[State Board Rejects Exclusion Requests ]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday afternoon, the State Water Resources Control Board spent more than four hours considering requests from eight Tule Subbasin groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) to be excluded from the SGMA probation requirements – specifically, the requirements to report groundwater pumping and pay state fees tied to that pumping. See the next article for a meeting recap.]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/state-board-rejects-exclusion-requests</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ebf02081e17196bd25c638</guid><category><![CDATA[Water]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:36:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Geoff Vanden Heuvel</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The short squeeze continues. Someone – or several someones – desperately need milk powder and they need it now. USDA’s Dairy Market News reports that prices are high enough that most milk powder users “are only buying loads to meet their immediate needs.” But for those that can’t do without, “it is difficult to find loads.” They bid the spot nonfat dry milk (NDM) market all the way up to $2.26 per pound this week, up 6ȼ from last Friday to a fresh all-time high. The spot market strength is...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-206</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ebefac81e17196bd25c4e0</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:35:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The milk powder market is sprinting straight uphill. Nonfat dry milk (NDM) rallied another 8.5ȼ this week and reached $2.20 per pound, the highest-ever price in the product’s 18-year tenure at the CME spot market. The short squeeze continues. USDA’s Dairy Market News reports that spot loads are tight from coast to coast, and they’re “particularly difficult to find in the Central region” where the expansion in cheese processing capacity has reduced the need for balancing. Even as milk production ]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-205</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cd8d36011a766e716b9d8e</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SGMA Round Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kings County Farm Bureau (KCFB) was in court this week on their lawsuit against the State Water Resources Control Board. Here is an update from Dusty Ference, KCFB Executive Director:]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/sgma-round-up</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e3a39043fd38a1bb725b71</guid><category><![CDATA[Water]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Geoff Vanden Heuvel</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Funding Enables Friant Water Authority Improvements]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was pretty exciting to hear at the Friant Water Authority (FWA) board meeting this week about the huge and immediate impact the $200 million allocation from the Big Beautiful Bill Congress passed a few months ago is having on FWA. New pump stations will soon be under construction and right of way purchases will be commencing on the next phase of the parallel canal subsidence fix on Friant-Kern. The influx of federal funding also paved the way to remove a huge conflict within the Friant...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/federal-funding-enables-friant-water-authority-improvements</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cd8cb455ae1fb580a53856</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Geoff Vanden Heuvel</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today marks the official start of spring and longer days and warmer temperatures are helping to spur milk volumes upward seasonally. But changing seasons aren’t the only factor driving milk production growth as volumes continue to post impressive year over year gains. In its Milk Production report published this afternoon, USDA estimated that U.S. dairy producers made 18.255 billion pounds of milk in February, 2.9% more than during the same month last year. The agency also revised the January...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-204</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf23ff6ec37c7e8a56f19e</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:08:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Monica Ganley</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[State Regulatory Decisions (or Refusal to Make Decisions) Continue to Cost Critical Water Supplies in a Changing Climate  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[On February 9, 2026, Congressmen Costa, Gray, Valadao and Fong jointly sent a letter to Governor Newsom (read here) asking him to suspend a regulation in the Delta called the Port Chicago water quality standard because the triggering of this standard would require releases from the reservoirs and the loss of as much as 600,000 acre-feet of fresh water to the ocean. If you remember, in January the California drought map showed our state for the first time in a long time completely free of...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/state-regulatory-decisions-or-refusal-to-make-decisions-continue-to-cost-critical-water-supplies-i</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bf233acf14a7a450cd80a7</guid><category><![CDATA[Water]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:04:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Geoff Vanden Heuvel</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dairy markets are contending with an abundance of milk and a fresh infusion of global turmoil. That amped up the volatility on LaSalle Street. CME spot Cheddar blocks came out

strong on Monday and rallied to a four-month high at $1.63 per pound. But as the week wore on, blocks’ enthusiasm waned. They settled today at $1.53, down 8.75ȼ for the week.]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-203</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b4e91c4898c9cce5a05234</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:53:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been a dramatic and volatile week, both in and out of the dairy markets. All eyes have been on the developing conflict in the Middle East and analysts have been scrambling to deduce the impact for the dairy market. Outside of drastically reduced dairy demand in the Gulf States, concerns are circulating around two key issues. Firstly, freight rates have soared as standard shipping routes...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-202</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ab83357fac2e2861ff5b3f</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:50:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Monica Ganley</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Butter futures jumped this week on the heels of a bullish Cold Storage report. USDA pegged January 31 butter inventories at 215.4 million pounds, down 17.4% from the year before. Domestic butter demand was robust and exports were strong enough to offset the significant growth in U.S. butterfat output. More recently, though, USDA’s Dairy Market News reported that butter churns are running “seven days a week… at or near max capacity.” And manufacturers tell Dairy Market News they are...]]></description><link>https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/post/milk-dairy-and-grain-market-commentary-201</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a23c1a50fcf4a427a0c3ea</guid><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:53:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/318cf1_baafcdefe03a4429a3549b92502d8c06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_799,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sarina Sharp</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>