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...

Courtesy of Hoard's Dairyman Published March 2021 Edition Special by Geoff Vanden Heuvel In the 1960s – at the urging of producers – a...

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...

On March 4, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) mailed ballots to all eligible California dairy producers, giving...

There was some news this week on the upcoming referendum on the Quota Sunset Proposal. The United Dairy Families of California (UDFC)...

This week, California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary Karen Ross ordered that a referendum be conducted on the...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The United Dairy Families of California (UDFC), a group of California producers that formed to create a process for California dairy...

As we reported last week, Dr. Marin Bozic and Mr. Matt Gould recommended a path forward for the industry to address the quota issue....

At meetings this past week in Chino, Tulare, Turlock and Petaluma, Dr. Marin Bozic and Matt Gould – the two economists (the TEAM) hired...

This past week, three Phase 2 Quota meetings were held in Chino, Tulare and Turlock respectively. At those meetings there was some...

Next week, the next round of Quota meetings take place, which you can register for here. The meeting dates and locations will be: •...

Just over a month ago, more than 370 dairy farmers and allied industry professionals participated in a series of meetings to discuss the...

Four public meetings were held this week, kicking off what organizers described as the “Think Tank” phase to review the California quota...

A press release came out this week announcing an organized effort by California producer interests to tackle the quota issue. The effort...

As I reported last week, the Producer Review Board took action to reduce the Quota Implementation Plan (QIP) assessment on Grade A milk...

The Producer Review Board met on Thursday June 20, 2019 in Sacramento and reviewed the first seven months of operation of the Quota...

Earlier this week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) released a notice it had performed a review of the signatures...

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...

This week California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross released the official "Department Procedures for Handling...

There is a lot of discussion going on right now among California producers about quota. It is an issue where producers have different...

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...