News

You’re busy – milking cows, watching rain clouds and making hay. With that in mind, Progressive Dairyman looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In recognition of your time, we’ll attempt to summarize recent events or actions making dairy headlines and reported in our weekly digital newsletter, Progressive Dairyman Extra. Then we’ll try to put that news into perspective and briefly describe how it might affect you.

I was a big Green Bay Packers fan as a kid growing up in the 1960s. Quarterback Bart Starr was my hero, and I did a few book reports on him as well as Coach Vince Lombardi.

With ongoing tariffs and the potential threat of more to come, the value of April 2019 U.S. ag exports fell below imports for the first time since May 2017.

Digest Highlights

• May Class III and IV milk prices move to two-year highs
• Emergency forage provisions sought in Upper Midwest
• California Dairies Inc. joins NMPF
• Coast-to-coast dairy rally takes on child hunger
• Wet weather slows field progress, barge traffic
• April dairy product output mixed

Another attempt to ensure students have more milk options with their school breakfasts and lunches has been introduced in the House of Representatives. The bipartisan School Milk Nutrition Act of 2019 was introduced June 5. A similar bill was introduced in 2017.