(Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA., 2018)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
This final rule establishes a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) regulating
the handling of milk in California. This final rule issues a marketing order incorporating the
entire state of California and adopts the same dairy product classification and pricing provisions
used throughout the current FMMO system. The California FMMO provides for the recognition
of producer quota as administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. More
than the required number of producers for the California marketing area have approved the
issuance of the order. This final rule also announces AMS’s intention to merge the information
collection forms used to conduct the producer referendum with the reporting forms used in the
other dairy marketing orders.