A meeting of the Producer Review Board (PRB) was held on Monday, September 22, 2025, at the Clubhouse at Cal Expo in Sacramento. In a nice touch, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) provided water, donuts, and fruit. The meeting started at about 10:15 a.m. Since the last meeting on May 5, 2025, the PRB has lost five members and picked up two. Four of the five resigned: John Moons, Jim Vieira, Arlin Van Groningan, and Jarrid Bordessa. Kerry Vander Poel mov

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 ...