In her keynote speech delivered this week at the Dairy Forum 2015, Connie Tipton, president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, shared her vision of the dairy landscape through 2020 and called for an industry-wide collaboration on policy and regulatory changes that are needed to spur innovation and meet growing demand across global markets.
Following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) said it is encouraged the president’s call to pass legislation reauthorize Trade Promotion Authority was welcomed with bipartisan support from members of Congress,
Over 23,000 of the nation’s dairy operations, more than half of all dairy farms in the US, have enrolled in a new safety-net program created by the 2014 Farm Bill known as the Margin Protection Program, according to USDA.
A number of leading food and agricultural organizations have joined together to support additional changes in US policy to facilitate US dairy exports to Cuba and permit open travel for Americans to the country.
The US dairy industry praised the results of recent meetings with China where officials committed to stronger protections for common food names, including cheese, according to the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA).
The US dairy industry has reached out to US government agricultural trade negotiators to inform them that their efforts on any final Pacific Rim free trade agreement must put access to foreign markets for US dairy farmers first and avoid pressure from other countries to regionalize all new market access opportunities in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service announced this week the government of Morocco accepted a proposed certificate without further revision that concludes more than three years of negotiations to freely allow US dairy exports into the country.
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) submitted a letter to US Trade Representative Michael Froman and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack calling for the replacement of Japan’s current import administration in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).