Who is the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture?

A recent survey conducted by Hoard’s Dairyman reported that 55% of dairy farms feed waste milk to ______.

Milk marketing cooperatives

Classified pricing under Federal Milk Marketing is a system that assigns value to milk based on the end use of the product. Class II pricing includes milk used to make _________.

The reason Federal Milk Market Administrators test grade A milk for composition and audit records of purchases by dealers is to _________.

What is the term that is an estimate of what it costs to transform milk into a finished dairy product like butter or cheese? These estimates are important because the values are used by USDA in setting the monthly minimum prices that regulated plants must pay for the components in your milk checks.

Created by the Fluid Milk Promotion Act of 1990, this organization collects an assessment from processors marketing more than 3 million pounds of milk and develops and finances generic advertising programs to expand markets and uses of US fluid milk products.

The Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program offers protection to dairy producers when the difference between the all-milk-price and the average feed price (the margin) falls below a certain dollar amount selected by the producer. In 2021, the DMC program made indemnity payments totaling nearly _______ to producers who chose to be covered.

Which was the top yogurt producing state in 2021?

Which cooperative marketed the most milk in 2021?

While there were significant disruptions in trade throughout 2021, total US dairy export value _______ when compared to the dairy exports of 2020.

Federal Milk Market Orders provide _______ to distribute moneys fairly among producers supplying milk to a market.

Most dairy cows are milked two to three times per day. On average, a Holstein dairy cow will produce ______ gallons of milk each day.

Since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a National Ice Cream Month, it has been celebrated annually, every ___________?

_________ has the greatest number of dairy cows in the world with over 40 million cows.

Although, some states produce more milk than their population can consume (net exporters of milk), other states do not produce enough milk to fulfill their population needs (net importers of milk). Which of the following states is a net importer of milk?

Traditionally, Mozzarella cheese is made from the milk of water buffalo. When compared to mozzarella from dairy cattle milk, mozzarella from water buffalo milk is lower in:

To make one pound of butter requires approximately _______ pounds of whole milk.

Which state recorded the largest percentage gain of milk production with an increase of 16.7% during 2021?

The combining total classified value of producer milk received by every handler regulated under a milk order is defined as __________.

Which country purchased the most dairy products from the United States during 2021?

California, Wisconsin and Idaho were the three largest milk producing states in 2021. Their production accounted for _________ percent of the U.S. milk production in 2021.

__________ is an effective natural choice exercise recovery drink due to its powerful nutrient package that supplies the nutrition the body needs after a workout. It has carbohydrates to help refuel the body; protein to help reduce muscle breakdown and stimulate growth; and fluid and electrolytes to aid in rehydration. Drinking it after resistance training has been shown to increase the body’s ability to make new muscle and may help improve body composition.

Which countries lead the world in milk production and cattle milk production, respectively?

Which of the following is true of Kefir?

Milk from this species is the most widely consumed milk in the world?

The Dairy Research and Promotion Program, also known as the Dairy Checkoff Program, is a national producer and importer program for dairy product promotion, research, and nutrition education. To fund the program, U.S. dairy farmers pay a 15-cents- per hundred-weight assessment on their milk and importers pay _______ per hundred-weight on dairy products imported into the U.S.

The actual milk check amount received by a dairy farmer is called the _______.

What item of federal legislation authorized the legality of farmer cooperatives and provided them with legal rights of negotiation for their members in matters related to the pricing structures and marketing of milk products?