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The development of regional dairy compacts faces a number of legislative issues. One of the major legislative challenges that may be encountered is that the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact (NEIDC) is scheduled for termination when the federal reform process is completed. Moreover, the extension of the NEIDC will require an approval from the Congress. The creation of a southern dairy compact is also a legislative hurdle since every potential member state is required to approve similar legislation such as those passed by the Northeast states in forming the NEIDC.

Another regional battle has broken out in the Senate over how to distribute $290 million in aid to dairy producers, with members representing smaller farms in the East fighting senators [...]

US politicians announced yesterday (29 July) that they would reform the Congressional Dairy Farmer Caucus in a bid to give more help to the country's struggling dairy farmers. Co-chairs Reps. [...]

Industry groups debate |Pyramid' politics The rumpus began in early April, when the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a pseudo-physician's group, released its proposal for four new food groups, [...]

FLORIDA PRODUCE CAMPAIGNS GENERATE NEW REVENUE TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Three produce marketing campaigns, involving 34 retail chains, helped boost retail sales of Florida-grown fruits and vegetables by $394.4 million over [...]

NEW YORK - Whole milk is being expelled from the largest school district in the country here, much to the chagrin of the dairy industry. One percent and fat-free milk [...]

WITH sterling weakening against the euro, world commodity markets firming and supply levels down on last year, NFU Cymru's milk committee is hoping for improved producer prices in the spring. [...]

DAIRY farmers in Staffordshire are due to present a petition and a symbolic milk bottle, highlighting problems caused by low milk prices, to local MP Charlotte Atkins at Leek this [...]

PRESSURE group Farmers For Action has issued a veiled warning of further action if dairy producers do not receive at least the cost of production for their milk In a [...]

By Andrew Shirley MILK processors have denied NFU accusations that they behave in a completely unacceptable way by failing to pass margins down the supply chain to farmers. NFU president, […]

By FW reporters SUPERMARKETS have been given three weeks to pay farmers more for milk or face blockades at their distribution depots. NFU Scotland has broken ranks with unions in […]

By FWreporters THE NFU has been accused of conducting a smear campaign against grass-roots farmers in an attempt to thwart talks with dairy companies over milk prices. Senior NFU officials […]

Labour MP for Chorley, Lancashire, Lindsay Hoyle, has called for DEFRA Secretary of State Margaret Beckett to hold a meeting between dairy farmers and the major milk purchasers to discuss [...]

Encouraging nurseries and schools to claim free or subsidised milk would benefit both children's health and UK dairy producers. Mike Stones explains how readers can help ABOUT 1m nursery children […]

FARMERS for Action has condemned milk co-operatives after it was forced to cancel a meeting to discuss problems with the co-operative movement. The organisation had hoped to hold a meeting […]

A leading expert, who wishes to remain anonymous, says PETA's campaign against milk is an abuse of science The website run by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) [...]

The UK dairy industry is on the defensive following a concerted assault on milk by an animal rights group. Helen Gough investigates The UK dairy industry spends millions of pounds [...]

The dairy industry has expressed outrage at an anti-milk campaign designed to target schoolchildren. Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which claims dairy farming is [...]

Dairy producers like what they see so far from the House Agriculture Committee. The panel has submitted a draft of the new Farm Bill and producers believe the federal dairy [...]

Dairy industry representatives are taking a leading role in a food industry coalition working for more aggressive U.S. trade policies in agriculture. The group, AgTrade, was formed in 1998 to [...]

Backers of regional dairy compacts have introduced legislation renewing the Northeast Dairy Compact and establishing a Southern Dairy Compact, which would set rules on price and production. The bill is [...]

Action on dairy compact legislation will heat up late in the summer, according to Kathleen Nelson, director of legislative affairs for the International Dairy Foods Assn. 'This fight is likely [...]

President Bush briefed a number of dairy processors recently on his plans for tax relief. James Oberweis of Oberweis Dairy Inc., Larry Webster and Bonnie Schaffer of Cloverland/Greenspring Dairy, and [...]

Election 2000 may have created havoc in the presidential race, but the Congressional landscape remains mostly unchanged, despite a closer than expected alignment in the U.S. Senate. There, Republicans hold [...]

Seven dairy and farm groups are expressing 'serious concern' about potential adjustments to USDA's dairy price support program, saying it could reduce already-low milk prices. In a letter to Agriculture [...]

In our last issue Richard Hares -- owner of now-defunct UK cheese-maker V J Hares -- claimed that people thought nothing of paying 2p extra for a litre of fuel, [...]

Irish Farmers' Association furious over major chains cutting the price of milk Supermarkets in the Irish Republic are threatened with a petrol-style blockade by dairy farmers who claim they could [...]

IDFA's Washington Conference keeps up the pressure in a quiet legislative year Despite the absence of 'hot button' legislative issues, dairy processors nevertheless assaulted Capital Hill in June as part [...]

With an apparent Band-aid applied to its overproduction problems, the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact survived two potentially fatal scares in the past two months: the feared withdrawal of Massachusetts in [...]

Few lobbies are as powerful as the dairy industry. Inside Washington, the subsidies keep flowing to it. Outside in the marketplace, milk is portrayed as vital to good health, even […]

Proposed new organisation will create unified lobby Milk producers are preparing to restructure the UK Federation of Milk Producer Organisations into a grouping that will represent the interests of quota [...]

Pennsylvania dairy farmers last month urged their 1egislators to allow the state to join the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact, noting that legislation is already in place to include Pennsylvania in [...]

MCLEAN, VA. -- The National Yogurt Association has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to set more precise standards of identity for yogurt. The trade organization says the current standards [...]

Recently approved health claim and nutritional recognition pave the way for soy beverages to move in on cows milk; dairy producers fight back The Oct. 26, 1999 FDA approval of [...]

'Your money or your life.' Hopefully, you've never been confronted in a dark alley by someone asking you to make such an unpalatable choice. But dairy producers recently were faced [...]

Following the 'yes' vote by the Irish in their second referendum on 2 October 2009 and the ratification by the last of the 27 member states, the Czech Republic, on [...]

The Agenda 2000 proposals for the EU's dairy regime were a step in the right direction but they were too little, too late and lacked vision, Dr Antoon Van de [...]

The US dairy sector, along with US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, is likely to present a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding a Canadian policy where milk producers offered milk processors better prices for products due for export. According to the complaint, the policy goes against WTO subsidy commitments and allows domestically produced milk products to compete unfairly against US dairy exports. The National Milk Producers Federation, International Dairy Foods Association and US Dairy Export Council have asked Barshefsky to take the complaint to the WTO.

The alarming decline of Maryland's dairy business has prompted the government and farm sectors to work for a legislation of a body that will control production costs and erratic fluctuation of milk prices.