Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act

Nicholas A. Langworthy

Republican · NY · Representative

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• Brad Finstad (R-MN-1)Original· 2025-01-09
• Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24)Original· 2025-01-09
• Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4)Original· 2025-01-09
• David G. Valadao (R-CA-22)Original· 2025-01-09
• Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3)Original· 2025-01-09
• Jim Costa (D-CA-21)Original· 2025-01-09
• John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-2)Original· 2025-01-09
• Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25)Original· 2025-01-09
• James R. Baird (R-IN-4)· 2025-01-14
• Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)· 2025-01-15
• Josh Riley (D-NY-19)· 2025-01-31
• Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1)· 2025-02-04
• Josh Harder (D-CA-9)· 2025-02-04
• Tony Wied (R-WI-8)· 2025-04-17
• Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21)· 2025-06-05
• Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5)· 2025-06-26
• Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)· 2025-10-03

Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.

2025-02-14

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Fair Milk Pricing for Farmers Act This bill requires manufacturers to report production cost and product yield information for all dairy products processed in the same facility or facilities to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program. Further, USDA must publish a report containing the information obtained under these new requirements and publish a report every two years thereafter. As background, under the Dairy Product Mandatory Reporting Program, USDA must collect certain dairy product sales information from manufacturers and release the data on a weekly basis.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 295 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 295 To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory reporting of dairy products processing costs. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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