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  • Calif. dairymen hang whey value hopes on state Senate

    In an attempt to capture more of the whey value in their milk, California dairymen hope the state Senate will give them better results than the Assembly. Supporters say a bill aimed at reducing the price disparity California producers receive for their mi...

  • House Ag Committee defeats Goodlatte-Scott amendment

    The Goodlatte-Scott amendment was the first amendment defeated when the House Ag Committee started markup of its version of the 2013 Farm Bill, May 15, according to Bob Gray, with the Northeast Dairy Farmers Cooperative. U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) an...

  • California Dairy Leaders Class XII selected

    A new year for Western United Dairymen’s highly regarded California Dairy Leaders program is underway with the selection recently of the members of Class XII. This year’s group includes five women and one man. This will be the twelfth year for the nat...

  • Assembly panel considers bill on milk pricing

    A bill that would have established a formula for determining the whey value in the California milk pricing system to bring prices closer to those paid under the federal milk marketing order has been amended, to allow California dairy farmers and processor...

  • Win Michael Marsh’s money at June 3 golf tourney

    Golfers will have an opportunity to win $100 when they go up against Western United Dairymen CEO Michael Marsh in a closest-to-the-hole competition at the 11th annual North Valley Fed-PAC Golf Tournament Monday, June 3, at Diablo Grande Golf Course. Marsh...

  • California lawmakers seek consensus on whey pricing

    An Assembly panel unanimously approved a watered-down whey pricing bill May 1 and asked producers and processors to come to the bargaining table to reach solutions.  An overflow gathering of dairymen from around the state listened nervously as the Ag...

  • CDFA issues call for May 20 hearing on milk prices

    The CDFA has issued a call for a public hearing May 20 to consider temporary amendments to the Stabilization and Marketing Plans for Market Milk for the Northern California and Southern California Marketing Areas (Plans). The hearing will be held on May 2...

  • AB 31 committee hearing can be heard on-line

    The state Assembly Agriculture Committee hearing tomorrow on Assembly Bill 31 can be listed to online. The committee meets in the Capitol at 1:30 p.m. to listen to testimony on the bill. The legislation sponsored by WUD and authored by Assemblyman Dr. Ric...

  • Stakes Are High in May 1 Hearing on California Dairy Pricing Proposal

    The stakes could hardly be higher for the two main sectors of California’s dairy industry. The state’s dairy producers and processors each say their very survival is at stake if AB31, the proposed legislation to change the state’s pricing system, do...

  • Local supporters of dairy bill heading to Sacramento

    At the age of 66, Ed Fletcher figured he would put in another few years running the dairy his family built southeast of Tulare and then retire. But after nearly five years of dairies getting low prices for their milk, the continued reluctance of state off...

  • Assembly Agriculture Committee set to debate Assembly Bill 31

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  • Pro-AB 31 video airing on You Tube

    The Yes on AB 31 effort has posted a video featuring past WUD President Ray Souza, a Turlock dairyman, as he discusses the importance of protecting the legacy of California dairymen and women. To view the video, please click here. “If we lose the Pan bi...

  • California bill to thwart animal investigations is killed

     A bill that would have limited undercover farm animal abuse investigations has been pulled by its author amid stiff and growing opposition. Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, had carried the bill for the California Cattlemen's Association, which said it sough...

  • Agriculture Workforce Coalition praises immigration plan

    A collection of farm groups known as the Agriculture Workforce Coalition, of which Western United Dairymen is a founding member,  today voiced  their support for the immigration reform package introduced by a bipartisan group of Senators Tuesday...

  • Groundwater regulation informational meetings set for Modesto, Merced and Madera

    The East San Joaquin Water Quality Coalition (ESJWQC) is co-hosting with local county Farm Bureaus three informational meetings on the new groundwater regulations impacting irrigated agriculture in the northern San Joaquin Valley region.  Attending e...

  • Orange County Register Editorial: California dairies in distress

    Many dairy farmers in California are suffering, and some are moving from the state. "At the World Ag Expo, a behemoth trade show held last month in Tulare County, nine states had recruitment booths on the ground's Dairy Center," the Los Angeles Times repo...

  • WUD praises agreement on immigration reform

    Western United Dairymen today welcomed an agreement on immigration reform reached by the Agriculture Workforce Coalition, the United Farm Workers (UFW) and key Senators engaged in the process. WUD is a founding member of the AWC, an organization working t...

  • WUD members urged to contact Ag Committee in support of AB 31

    Western United Dairymen President Tom Barcellos is calling on WUD members to contact members of the Assembly Agriculture Committee and urge passage of AB 31which would more closely align the whey value in the California 4b formula with the regulated minim...

  • Should AB 31 become law? Yes: This plan to help California dairy farms will cost you nothing

    By Michael Marsh, CEO, Western United Dairymen - - Three hundred eighty-seven family businesses have shut their doors in the past five years. The employees were laid off, the equipment sold and what once were hubs of frenetic commerce are now overgrown wi...

  • Feinstein: Tentative deal on immigration ag workers

    A tentative deal has been reached to resolve a dispute between agriculture workers and growers that was standing in the way of a sweeping immigration overhaul bill, a key senator said Tuesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who's taken the lead on negot...