Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative and the Dairy Business Association, among other groups, are proposing a reform to the Federal Milk Marketing Order. The proposal is called Class III Plus. The groups released it earlier this year. Edge economist and University of Minnesota Professor Marin Bozic says right now, fluid milk sales are down and dairy exports are growing, raising the need to reorganize the U.S. milk pricing system. The FMMO provides help for dairy produces with added revenue on their milk check above and beyond the value of milk when its used in cheese or butter making or milk powders, he explains. That figure is a line item on milk checks called Producer Price Differential, and it's been going down.

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative and the Dairy Business Association, among other groups, are proposing a reform to the Federal Milk Marketing Order. The proposal is called Class III Plus. The groups released it earlier this year. Edge economist and University of Minnesota Professor Marin Bozic says right now, fluid milk sales are down and dairy exports are growing, raising the need to reorganize the U.S. milk pricing system. The FMMO provides help for dairy produces with added revenue on their milk check above and beyond the value of milk when its used in cheese or butter making or milk powders, he explains. That figure is a line item on milk checks called Producer Price Differential, and it's been going down.

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