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How We Came to Have Federal Milk Marketing Orders:¹ What They are and What They Do

Dairy Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

ABSTRACT

For almost 30 years now, milk producers have relied more and more on federal milk pricing programs to protect them from the complex and inherently unstable markets they face unless they have some form of governmental assistance. Eighty-three federal milk orders are in effect this month. They price the milk of 188,000 producers who deliver over 45% of all whole milk delivered to plants and dealers in the United States today.

A program as complex and important as this cannot be covered completely within the time allotted us this morning, but the six of us hope to contribute to your knowledge in this field. If we don't happen to touch a point of particular importance to you, please take advantage of the open discussion period to seek an answer to your question.

In the never-ending struggle to strengthen his bargaining position in the market place, the fluid milk producer has found that the nature of the product he sells complicates its marketing and pricing.

¹ Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, University of Maryland, College Park, June, 1962.