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NMPF Board to Vote on Supply Management Plan Trying to put the best face on the failure to win broad approval for a scheme to raise milk prices by assessing farmers 18 cents per hundredweight (cwt) for slaughtering cows, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) last week cited "the recent upward trend in dairy prices, as well as a desire to make the program as broadly popular as possible" as the reasons for revising its supply management plan proposal. The program that will be voted on this week will reportedly require only a 5-cent per cwt assessment and 70% participation of the milk supply.IDFA believes that a better solution would be for producers and processors to work together to try and fix the federal dairy programs already in place. "We do not favor supply management, because it contracts the industry rather than helping it grow," said IDFA Executive Vice President Connie Tipton. "In the long term, prosperity for the U.S. dairy industry will depend on growing markets rather than restricting supply." Posted July 7, 2003
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