Milk hearing is taking a long time

Milk hearing is taking a long time

Photo: Economist Peter Vitaliano testifies at the Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing

The hearing to consider possible changes to the federal milk marketing order system will resume in mid-January, but an industry leader says it should have wrapped up already.

Alan Bjerga with the National Milk Producers Federation says, “If people were just sticking on-topic and really focusing on the proposals, and really looking at what is best for dairy farmers as a whole, I think we’d be done by now.”

Bjerga says he’s confident their proposal would be fair and solve many problems.