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

Resumo

This document suspends certain provisions of the Middle Atlantic Federal milk marketing order for the months of September 1994 through February 1995. The suspension reduces the percent of receipts that must be disposed of as Class I disposition by pool distributing plants, provides automatic pool plant status for supply plants and reserve processing plants that were pool plants during the preceding months of September through February, and suspends 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. The suspension is necessary to assure that producer milk 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.