OPENING THE RECORD
OPENING THE RECORD
H.R. 295 · 119TH CONGRESS
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CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service for this version of the bill. Later versions may differ. Read at Congress.gov.