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Here in Ohio, statutory law clearly prohibits the sale of raw milk to an “ultimate consumer.” But the law does not prohibit animal owners from consuming raw milk from their own animals.
Dairy Farmers of America Inc. (DFA) is a national milk marketing cooperative in the United States. DFA markets members' raw milk and sells milk and derivative products (dairy products, food components, ingredients and shelf-stable dairy products) to wholesale buyers both domestically and abroad. Net sales in 2016 were $13.5 billion ...
Today, 20 states explicitly prohibit raw milk sales in some form and 30 allow it, according to the FDA. ... And areas where raw milk could be sold in retail stores, as opposed to only on farms ...
Joseph Heckman, a professor of soil science at Rutgers, asserts that the state’s dairy farms are losing out on $100 million annually through the prohibition of raw milk sales. Permitting raw ...
The court questioned ODA's "inexact practice" of permitting some owners (the farmers) to consume raw milk but not other owners. [31] Ohio's law prohibits any "raw milk retailer" from selling or "exposing for sale raw milk to the final consumer." [32] In 2012, an Iowa trial court invalidated a herdshare agreement in Slippy v. Northey. [33]
The sale of raw milk is outright illegal in nearly half of the country. And many states that do allow the sale of raw milk also include the caveat that it can only be purchased directly from a farmer.
These purchase prices are set high enough to enable dairy processors to pay farmers at least the support price for the milk they use in manufacturing these products. The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 1501) mandated a support price of $9.90/ cwt , effective through December 31, 2007, when the program by law was scheduled to expire.
Raw samples nationwide will now be collected and shared with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in order to test for bird flu, according to a new federal order issued by the agency on Friday. The ...