# A Processor Perspective On Price Reforms - Cheese Reporter

> A processor argues that calls for federal order reform focused on negative producer price differentials misread the cause of negative PPDs. Cheese makers depooled heavily in the Upper Midwest Order in summer 2020 as cheese prices rose quickly.

- Date: 2020-10-02 · published 2020-10-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/6552-a-processor-perspective-on-price-reforms-cheese-reporter
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

Changes to pooling and pricing rules could alter how milk value is paid to producers, affecting farm income and the dairy cow feed budget.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: neutral

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MILK | 2022-03-11 | [Rationale Builds for Milk Price Reforms - Cheese Reporter](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42417-rationale-builds-for-milk-price-reforms-cheese-reporter.md) | -0.1% | +7.6% |
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| MILK | 2025-10-31 | [The New Landscape for Barrels - Cheese Reporter](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22568-the-new-landscape-for-barrels-cheese-reporter.md) | +1.7% | +1.7% |
| MILK | 2022-05-23 | [Could a cheese price fix improve milk checks?](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41565-could-a-cheese-price-fix-improve-milk-checks.md) | +0.4% | -3.1% |
| MILK | 2021-09-15 | [Lawmakers hear perspectives on milk pricing system at hearing  \| Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45214-lawmakers-hear-perspectives-on-milk-pricing-system-at-hearing-agri-pulse.md) | +0.1% | +7.8% |

## Sources

- cheesereporter.com: https://cheesereporter.com/column/2020/10/02/a-processor-perspective-on-price-reforms/

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