The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act –What Does it Mean for Dairies in the Central Valley?
One year ago, the Milk Producers Council Board of Directors charged me with the responsibility of being the dairy industry’s eyes, ears...
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- Apr 27, 2019
- 6 min
How We Got the Fixed Differential
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for the MPC Friday Report that told a bit of the history of how the California quota system came into...
- Apr 6, 2019
- 1 min
CDFA Finalizes Quota Implementation Plan Petition Procedures
This week California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross released the official "Department Procedures for Handling...
- Mar 16, 2019
- 2 min
What’s Going on With Quota?
There is a lot of discussion going on right now among California producers about quota. It is an issue where producers have different...
- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
The Producer Review Board Holds a Meeting
This past Wednesday, the Producer Review Board (PRB) held its first meeting of the year. The first order of business was to elect a new...
- Dec 1, 2018
- 4 min
Congress passes a Farm Bill
In the end, after months of partisan haggling, the Farm Bill was passed this week with overwhelming majorities in both the House and...
- Sep 1, 2018
- 3 min
Dairy Revenue Protection program goes live in October
Dairy Revenue Protection (Dairy RP) is a program that will allow dairy producers to purchase crop insurance protection on milk income....
- Aug 10, 2018
- 0 min
- Jul 1, 2018
- 5 min
SGMA: What is it, what’s happening and where we are headed on groundwater supply and sustainability
The passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in 2014 set in motion a process that will forever influence and affect...
- Jul 13, 2017
- 0 min
- May 15, 2017
- 0 min