There were two meetings held about quota on Monday, May 5, 2025, in Modesto. The first meeting at 10 a.m. was a hearing called by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to receive testimony on the STOP QIP Petition #5, which seeks to hold a referendum...

On February 21, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that it is their intention to schedule a referendum...

There was a full slate of 15 voting members participating at the Tuesday, December 17, 2024, Producer Review Board (PRB) meeting in Modesto.

The Producer Review Board (PRB) will hold a meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday December 17, 2024, at the Stanislaus...

First of all, California producers are in the middle of a referendum period that started on October 11 and ends on January 9, 2025.

On September 9, there was a formal hearing held by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to receive information...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) held three public forums in the past 10 days to explain the upcoming...

As readers of this weekly report are well aware of, I have written extensively about the Quota Implementation Plan (QIP) since...

As I reported last month, the Producer Review Board (PRB) has been reviewing the Class I revenue generated into the California Federal...

On May 1, 2024, the Producer Review Board (PRB) held a meeting in Tulare. There were 12 Board members and 2 voting alternate Board...

Anyone following the California dairy producer community over the past number of years realizes that the issue of quota has been – and...

At 11:15 a.m., Producer Review Board (PRB) chairman Art Van Beek called the November 17, 2023 meeting to order. The venue was the...

Back in the day, serving on the Producer Review Board (PRB) was easy duty. One meeting a year to talk about the pooling budget, maybe a...

The Producer Review Board (PRB) has been wrestling with the challenge of finding the correct assessment rate to fund payments to ...

The Producer Review Board will hold its next meeting on October 2, 2023, 10 a.m. There will be no in-person option for this meeting and...

On Monday, July 31, the Producer Review Board (PRB) held an in-person meeting at the Stanislaus County Ag Commissioner’s complex.

On May 25, ten members of the Producer Review Board (PRB) got together with California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) staff...

On Monday, October 3, the Producer Review Board (PRB) met in Modesto and tackled a significant agenda. Normally approving the minutes...

The Producer Review Board (PRB) met this week for the first time since August of 2020. There were a number of business items that...

Late this afternoon, the California Department of Food Agriculture (CDFA) announced that the referendum proposing to sunset the Quota...