Producer Review Board Update
The Producer Review Board (PRB) met this week for the first time since August of 2020. There were a number of business items that...
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- Jul 2, 2021
- 1 min
Referendum to Sunset Quota Program Fails
Late this afternoon, the California Department of Food Agriculture (CDFA) announced that the referendum proposing to sunset the Quota...
- Apr 2, 2021
- 3 min
California's Quota Has Been 60-plus Years of Compromise
Courtesy of Hoard's Dairyman Published March 2021 Edition Special by Geoff Vanden Heuvel In the 1960s – at the urging of producers – a...
- Mar 12, 2021
- 1 min
MPC Remains Committed to Providing Neutral, Timely Coverage on Quota Referendum
As can be imagined, when it is decision time on a controversial issue, passions can be intense. There is a mailing by one of the sides in...
- Mar 6, 2021
- 3 min
Quota Referendum Ballots Mailed Out This Week
On March 4, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) mailed ballots to all eligible California dairy producers, giving...
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Insight Into Upcoming Producer Referendum
There was some news this week on the upcoming referendum on the Quota Sunset Proposal. The United Dairy Families of California (UDFC)...
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Quota Referendum Scheduled for March 4 - June 1, 2021
This week, California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary Karen Ross ordered that a referendum be conducted on the...
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Short, But Significant Quota Hearing Held this Week
The United Dairy Families of California’s (UDFC) petition for a referendum on their Quota Implementation Plan proposal was the subject of...
- Sep 26, 2020
- 4 min
Significant Quota Hearing Next Wednesday and Thursday
A two-day virtual hearing will be held on Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday, October 1 to consider the petition by the United Dairy...
- Aug 28, 2020
- 7 min
Producer Review Board Recommends a Hearing
In a virtual meeting held Thursday August 27, all 15 members of the Producer Review Board (PRB) gathered online to go through an agenda...
- Aug 15, 2020
- 2 min
This Week's Quota News
California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) attorney Michelle Dias rejected STOP QIP’s Motion to Reconsider. The motion asked...
- Aug 8, 2020
- 1 min
A Final Ruling in the Quota Lawsuit
Judge James P. Arguelles issued a final ruling on August 3, 2020 on the STOP QIP lawsuit against the California Department of Food and...
- Aug 1, 2020
- 3 min
Quota News This Week
This past Tuesday Judge Timothy Aspinwall, the judge from the Office of Administrative Hearings who conducted the hearing on the STOP QIP...
- Jun 13, 2020
- 5 min
CDFA Holds Quota Hearing
In a truly unprecedented fashion, a “virtual” hearing took place this week to consider the petition by Stop QIP to suspend Chapter 3.5 of...
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Virtual Public Hearing on Quota Scheduled for June 9-10
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has reset the date and time and format for a public hearing to consider a...
- May 9, 2020
- 1 min
QIP Assessment to Increase
At a Zoom meeting this week, the Producer Review Board wrestled with the reality that the current 32.5-cent per cwt. assessment on all...
- Feb 29, 2020
- 2 min
Public Hearing on Quota Scheduled for April 7 & 8
A Notice of a Public Hearing to Consider a Petition to Suspend Chapter 3.5 of the Food and Agriculture Code was posted this week by the...
- Feb 15, 2020
- 4 min
Quota Sunset Proposal Submitted to California Department of Food and Agriculture
The United Dairy Families of California (UDFC), a group of California producers that formed to create a process for California dairy...
- Feb 8, 2020
- 1 min
Registration Now Open for February 11 Quota Meeting at Farm Show in Tulare
As we reported last week, Dr. Marin Bozic and Mr. Matt Gould recommended a path forward for the industry to address the quota issue....
- Jan 11, 2020
- 4 min
Phase 3 Quota Meetings: Narrowing the Options
At meetings this past week in Chino, Tulare, Turlock and Petaluma, Dr. Marin Bozic and Matt Gould – the two economists (the TEAM) hired...