Agriculture Secretary, Senator Vogel Highlight Opportunity for Increased Dairy Competitiveness pa.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pa.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Natalie Kapustik, The Center Square | July 09, 2021 08:00 PM Print this article
To boost the Pennsylvania dairy industry, legislation allowing milk processors more flexibility with dating products was recently passed by lawmakers and signed by Gov. Tom Wolf.
Act 62 of 2021, introduced as Senate Bill 434, will allow milk processors to use a “best by” date instead of “sell by” date, as recommended by the Dairy Future Commission. For Pennsylvania milk to compete with milk processed in other states, producers can request a “best by” or “sell by” date later that the current 17-day milk code.
The change in milk date coding was one of the recommendations from a 2018 dairy industry study requested by Sen. Judy Schwank.
The too-big-to-fail theory maintains that certain institutions, often financial, are so interconnected with others that their failure would literally result in the destruction of the overall economic system. These institutions should, therefore, be supported by government.
The phrase originated with Congressman Stewart McKinney, R-Connecticut, in 1984 when he was discussing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.âs intervention in the failure of Continental Illinois, at one time the seventh-largest bank in the U.S. Most of us werenât familiar with the phrase until 2007-08, during the global financial crisis.
You may be thinking, âHow does this relate to Pennsylvaniaâs dairy industry?â
New Year s Resolutions | Dairy Farming News & Information lancasterfarming.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancasterfarming.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
You know itâs been a rough one when people start talking about turning to a new year while itâs still September.
Those souls, tempest-tossed and woebegone, are a few days from getting their wish and being rid of 2020. But changing the calendar wonât magically wave away the changes of the past year.
2021 will begin with high unemployment, muted demand from restaurants, a nationwide vaccination program that is just getting started, and a handsome U.S. sovereign debt.
Here are some of the big questions for the ag industry as it enters the new year.
1. How will the Biden administration shape farm policy?