Updates

Coming to theaters soon, The Quota  Racket  starring Gavin Newsom, Karen Ross, Nial McCarthy, Matt Swanson, and a supporting cast led by the famous Intervenors.   Based on a true story, you will see a racket that makes Al Capone look like a Sunday...

332,403,650 Americans just gave the Ukraine 780 million dollars in Military Aid to fight the Russian Army. 933 California Dairymen give 1 billion dollars every 6.3 years to 300+ California Dairymen and receive nothing return. There ought to be a law against something...

Quota is a tax on Dairyman that is passed on down to consumers who purchase our milk products. One billion dollars is collected every 6.3 years from our dairy industry and handed over to a select number of dairymen without providing anything for our consumers.  A...

Dear Dairymen of California, What if the PRB board put together a new regulation that said all Coops in California with over 25 dairies shipping to them, are now required to pay $.65 cwt. on all milk shipped into the Coops regardless of class.  This money would...

What about the Sewer in Sacramento? The dairy industry is getting screwed by QDFA.  Quota Department of Food and Agriculture.  QDFA put the QIP in Chapter 3.5 and when StopQIP tried to terminate Chapter 3.5, they were told by QDFA that it is illegal to use that...

Typical CDFA denies petitions without looking at them.  They claim that the sections used for authority are invalid.  Do they call us to discuss this?  No typical CDFA.  We do not know how CDFA came up with that response.    ...

The QIP was not ruled illegal because it failed to have a hearing as required by Section 62616 of Chapter 3 of Division 21 of the Food and Ag Code.  This will change, 50 years of legal statutory construct, of the necessity of having a hearing , anytime you want...

They go out of their way to serve themselves. ...They feel as if they deserve better. ...They have an exaggerated sense of self-worth. ...They feel as though they deserve special treatment. Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder Grandiose sense of...

Tuesday the 18th of January our much anticipated appeal will be heard  by a panel of 3 Justices from the District 3 Appellate  Court of California.   You can go to the Appellate courts web site (https://www.courts.ca.gov/3dca.htm) and get the instructions on how...

It is a no wonder that Dairymen think quota is a great investment, when you have Western United Quota Dairyman put a quota calculator in their quota section. It is this kind of lack of truth that got us in this problem of quota in the first place. How can you have a...

Why has Western United Dairymen, Milk Producers Council, California Dairies Inc., Dairy farmers of America and Land of Lakes done nothing when Dairymen’s Rights get trampled on by our government who is supposed to be serving us. God knows we pay them enough. It is one...

We are Ahead of schedule. We have 263 Packets of 6 Petitions signed and we have 19 more that are committed. According to the Sunset there are 933 Dairies, and we need 233 Signatures or 25% to submit our petitions to a referendum. Now remember the law is not as it is...

Our apologies to our next alleged Secretary of Agriculture Matt Swanson of Associated Feeds. We reported his daughters purchase of one cow for $355,000 for Vierra Dairy in Hilmar after she gave a declaration against Stop QIP telling of the hard times they are...

News Update _Good news Thank you for your response of getting us your petition’s back. We will get those Petitions in right away, and then we will start the process to have the referendums right away also. We are praying that we get this over before we lose anymore...

News Update_Stop Already Remember the PRB board meeting and StopQIP made the motion to suspend the $.36 cwt. tax for six months to give the dairy industry a little relief in this Coved disaster? And one by one the Board members paraded by the microphone with great...

News Update_Good News Another rule you don’t have to follow. If you purchased or sold quota in the last two years, and you want to either sell or buy, we have good news for you. You don’t have to wait the two years, because all you have to do is on the quota transfer...

CDFA has refused repeatedly to answer questions about the referendum process on the Sunset. They have refused to verify the Petition signers list, and verify the actual votes received? They refused the milk industry requests for transparency, and they also cannot come...

In 2019, United Dairy Families of California (UDFC) was created with the purpose of providing an alternative option to - what was our first choice -  the outright, immediate termination of the Quota Implementation Plan. In June 2020, after initiating a multi-phased,...

Instead of appealing to the entitled few with phrases like “preserve your equity”, the Favored 300 ought to just come out and say, “vote no, so we can continue taking your money every month for the rest of your life” because the reality is, without us, they don’t have...

By  Geoff Vanden HeuvelDirector of Regulatory and Economic AffairsGeoff@MilkProducers.org  There was some news this week on the upcoming referendum on the Quota Sunset Proposal. The United Dairy Families of California (UDFC) group, which petitioned for the referendum,...

Late yesterday, news hit that Secretary Ross signed a Decision of Order (which you can find here), adopting Judge Aspinwall's December recommendation and allowing for the much anticipated producer referendum to finally take place. According to the...

BEFORE THEDEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In the Matter of the Public Hearing to Consider a Petition to Amend and Terminate the Quota Implementation Plan OAH No. 2020080708 RECOMMENDED DECISION Proposed Decision UDF OAH2020080708 Hearing Timothy...

In today's news... right to vote via Chapter 3.5 denied by Judge, plus court date rescheduled. Yesterday, the Administrative Law Judge who heard the Chapter 3.5 Petition issued his decision recommending that the Secretary deny STOP QIP’s Petition for a referendum to...

As you know, our latest signature gathering drive resulted in success! The CDFA will be holding the required hearing on April 7-8 in Visalia. We will keep you updated on that important event.  Meanwhile, leading up to that early April date, you may be inclined to...