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Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory reporting of dairy products processing costs.
Summary
This bill would amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to expand mandatory reporting requirements for dairy manufacturers. Manufacturers would be required to report production cost and product yield information for all dairy products processed in their facilities, in addition to existing price and volume reporting. The Department of Agriculture would be required to compile and publish this information in a public report every two years, beginning three years after the law is enacted. The expanded reporting is intended to increase transparency about dairy processing costs in the industry.
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Sponsor (1)
17 cosponsors
- Rep. Baird, James R. [R-IN-4] (R-IN)
- Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21] (D-CA)
- Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1] (R-MN)
- Rep. Fitzgerald, Scott [R-WI-5] (R-WI)
- Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9] (D-CA)
- Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9] (R-PA)
- Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2] (R-MI)
- Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25] (D-NY)
- Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] (R-WA)
- Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] (D-ME)
- Rep. Riley, Josh [D-NY-19] (D-NY)
- Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21] (R-NY)
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] (R-NY)
- Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22] (R-CA)
- Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3] (R-WI)
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA)
- Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8] (R-WI)
Actions (4)
- Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit. · house
- Feb 14, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. · house
- Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2025
Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Van Orden, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Finstad, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Costa, Mr. Newhouse, and Mr. Valadao) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory reporting of dairy products processing costs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act”.
SEC. 2. MANDATORY REPORTING OF DAIRY PRODUCTS PROCESSING COSTS.
Section 273 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1637b) is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking “and” at the end;
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
(iii) by adding at the end the following:
“(C) for each manufacturer required to report under subparagraph (A) for any product, require that manufacturer to report production cost and product yield information, as determined by the Secretary, for all products processed in the same facility or facilities.”; and
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting “products and” after “those”; and
(2) in subsection (d)—
(A) in the subsection heading, by striking “Electronic Reporting” and inserting “Reporting”;
(B) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in the heading, by striking “Electronic Reporting” and inserting “Reporting”; and
(ii) by striking “this section” and inserting in its place “subparagraphs (A) and
(B) of subsection (b)(1)”;
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking “this section” and inserting in its place “subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1)”; and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
“(3) Dairy products processing costs.—Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary shall publish a report containing the information obtained under subparagraph (C) of subsection (b)(1).”. <all>
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