Final Rule on Amendments to All Federal Milk Orders
US - The US Department of Agriculture on Friday issued a final rule amending the producer-handler definition in all Federal milk marketing orders. Producers in all Federal milk marketing orders approved the amendments in referenda held in March 2010.![](https://cdn.globalagmedia.com/contents/ams_usda.gif)
This rule amends the producer handler definition to limit exemption from pooling and pricing provisions of the orders to those producer-handlers with total route disposition and sales of packaged fluid milk products to other plants of 3 million pounds or less per month.
These amendments were considered in a recommended decision published 21 October 2009, and adopted by a final decision published 4 March 2010. The final rule appears in the Federal Register. The amendments will be effective 1 June 2010.
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