The News You Need to Know
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News Articles
California Grade A Producers To Again Vote on QIP
By Pete Hardin One more time, California’s 775 Grade A dairy producers will vote in a referendum on continuing the Quote Implementation Program (QIP). That program is commonly referred to as the state’s “milk quota” program. The California Department of Food...
Frank Konyn’s Insights on California Class I Quotas
This was truly a compromise amendment. Yes, Quota holders were going to receive less income on the pounds of quota that they held, but they were still receiving more income than the class 1 market is generating. Last year, the California Class 1 market only generated...
Konyn Amendment Vote Falls Below 65%: No Changes Stop QIP Referendum Projected for Late Spring
Matters involving the “Quota Implementation Program” (QIP) remain on the front burner in California. First, a statewide vote on the so-called “Konyn Amendment” to QIP has failed to gain the necessary two-thirds vote by the state’s Grade A dairy producers. That means...
CDFA Misses 30-Day Limit to Report QIP Results
January 10, 2025 was the deadline to conclude voting by California’s Grade A dairy producers on a referendum to alter the state’s Quota Implementation Program (QIP). QIP is the mechanism that governs California’s controversial system of dairy farm-based milk...
Quota Referenda & Legal Challenge Fracture Calif. Producers
by Pete Harding Orginally printed in the January 2025 issue of The Milkweed - Issue No. 544 If the devastation from avian influenza hammering California’s milk industry wasn’t a big enough issue, dairy producers in the Golden State are now split over a bedrock...
Petition #5: CDFA Decision
Read below to see how Secretary Karen Ross has gone back on her word about having the referendum. A month ago the CDFA said the petitions were valid and now suddenly there are not... this makes no sense. Click here to see the full letter. We will not stop fighting to...
Petition #5 Valid
Check out this letter from the CDFA that shows our petition #5 had the necessary number of valid petitions to go forward with a vote! "Dear Mr. Gordon, The California Department of Food and Agriculture (Department) is in receipt of your June 22, 2023 letter and...
Critics Cite “Georgia-Style” Tactics by CDFA in QIP Referendum
May 2021 | By Pete Hardin, from The Milkweed | Grade A dairy producers in California are currently in the final few weeks of United Dairy Families Sunset referendum during which they may vote to continue, or sunset, that state’s Quota Implementation Program ...
Politics Thick in QIP Fight, CDFA Announces Referendum
February 2021 | By Pete Hardin, from The Milkweed | During his rough-and-tumble years in California, Mark Twain wrote: “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.”…
Producer Tells CA FMMO: Stop Deducting Unauthorized QIP Assessment
January 2020 | “Chino, California dairy producer Craig Gordon has elevated his battle against the state’s Quota Implementation Program (QIP) to a higher authority: the California Federal Milk Order (#51)…
Stop QIP's Latest Thrust v. California's "Milk Quota Tax"
December 2020 | “The words of an attorney for the California Department of Food and Agriculture clearly admits that the “tax” to fund payments to quota holders in that state did not follow proper precedues…
Craig Gordon Details QIP Battle, Producer's Frustrations in California
October 2020 | “Despite some setbacks, efforts by the group of California dairy producers continue to try to overturn the Quota Implementation Plan (QIP). That’s the administrative mechanism by which …
Politics Getting Thick in California's 'Stop QIP' Effort
February 2020 | “The battle involving efforts by 350 California dairy producers to terminate that state’s Quota Implememtation Program (QIP) has become white-hot in the past couple months…
'Stop QIP' Effort in California Gaining Steam
November 2019 | “Dairy producers in California targeting the state’s milk quota program for ‘retirement’ have re-targeted their legal challenges …
Unrest in Golden State: Challenge $1.1 Bil. Quota System
November 2018 | “Sources in California report that a nucleus of dairy producers has started circulating a petition seeking signatures of state dairy producers in an effort to force state officials …
Farmdale Creamery Letter
November 2018 | Read this article written by Scott D. Hofferber, CFO of Farmdale Creamery. He gives his opinion on the quota in his own words …
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