On January 4, in a surprise move, USDA announced another round of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program. This program...

Milk, Dairy and Grain Market Commentary By Monica Ganley, Daily Dairy Report Seemingly unwilling to leave 2020’s habits in the past, the...

Sarina did a good job of outlining what we know about the dairy-specific provisions of the recently passed and signed COVID Relief Bill...

Is there a correlation between butter inventories and butter prices? It would seem obvious that there is. We know that our government...

Bulk butter inventories surged when the pandemic hit in March. The reason was obvious. Restaurants and institutional food service...

Water availability is a big deal to a dairy. Without an accessible and relatively clean water supply, dairy farming is not possible. Much...

2020 has been crazy for everybody, but for dairy farmers who have the responsibility to feed, milk and care for their animals every day...

The United Dairy Families of California’s (UDFC) petition for a referendum on their Quota Implementation Plan proposal was the subject of...

A two-day virtual hearing will be held on Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday, October 1 to consider the petition by the United Dairy...

As the various Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) grapple with implementation of their Sustainability Plans...

In a virtual meeting held Thursday August 27, all 15 members of the Producer Review Board (PRB) gathered online to go through an agenda...

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) attorney Michelle Dias rejected STOP QIP’s Motion to Reconsider. The motion asked...

Judge James P. Arguelles issued a final ruling on August 3, 2020 on the STOP QIP lawsuit against the California Department of Food and...

Keeping an eye on water supply is a big part of what I do for Milk Producers Council. What follows are some tidbits I have learned along...

This past Tuesday Judge Timothy Aspinwall, the judge from the Office of Administrative Hearings who conducted the hearing on the STOP QIP...

Keeping an eye on water supply is a big part of what I do for Milk Producers Council. What follows are some tidbits I have learned....

It may seem obvious, but it bears repeating that the price of milk a dairyman receives is based on the value of the products...

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...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has reset the date and time and format for a public hearing to consider a...

On Tuesday morning, I read the 36-page opinion and order of Fresno Federal District Court Judge Dale Drozd granting the motion...