Milk in the Middle Atlantic Marketing Area; Proposed Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Order

Samenvatting

This document invites written comments on a proposal to suspend certain provisions of the Middle Atlantic Federal milk marketing order for the months of September 1994 through February 1995. The proposed suspension would reduce the percent of receipts that must be disposed of as Class I disposition by pool distributing plants, provide automatic pool plant status for supply plants and reserve processing plants that were pool plants during the months of September through February, and suspend the limit on the amount of milk that may be diverted to nonpool plants by cooperative associations and by pool plant operators. The suspension was requested by several Middle Atlantic cooperatives and handlers who contend that the suspension is necessary to assure that producer milk which has been historically associated with the market will continue to be pooled and priced under the order without incurring unnecessary and uneconomic movements solely for the purpose of maintaining pool status.