Tag: Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board
Redding unveils plan to reform Pa.’s over-order premium
Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding proposed that retailers collect the entire premium at the point-of-sale, instead of the premium being collected through a wholesale minimum price build-up. This would allow a more equitable distribution of the premium to all dairy farmers in the state, he said.
Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board extends over-order premium to June
The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board extended the $1 per hundredweight premium for six months starting Jan. 1, saying it needed more time to consider a change to the over-order premium system.
Changes to over-order premium hit snag in Pa. Senate
Whether the over-order premium still works as intended or is still needed at all has been a hotly debated topic among Pennsylvania dairy farmers for years.
