A bill to equalize the minimum adjustments to prices for fluid milk under milk marketing orders, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to study the solids content of beverage milk, and to provide for a manufacturing allowance for milk under the milk price support program, and for other purposes.
Midwest Dairy Equity Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to establish: (1) a uniform class I milk price adjustment of $1.80 per hundredweight for all marketing areas; and (2) the minimum fluid beverage milk price at $13.20 per hundredweight.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the desirability and effects of fortifying beverage milk with nonfat solids; and (2) establish manufacturing allowances of $1.37 per hundredweight of milk for butter and nonfat dry milk, and $1.52 per hundredweight for cheese.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
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