# Pennsylvania Milk Board Explains Decision To Drop Over-Order Premium As Distribution Inequities And Consumer Costs Prompt Sunset

> Pennsylvania's milk board ended an over-order premium of about $1 per hundredweight, plus a fuel adjuster, that had been included in the state minimum retail price for fluid milk. The board said consumers funded the premium, but only in-state farmers supplying fluid milk received it, leaving producers supplying other products or shipping across state lines without the benefit.

- Date: 2026-11-06 · published 2026-11-07T09:08:25.712Z
- Category: policy · region Pennsylvania, United States · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/85773-pennsylvania-milk-board-explains-decision-to-drop-over-order-premium-as
- Commodities: [Milk (Class III)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MILK.md)

## Why it matters

Removing the premium lowers the mandated retail price burden on fluid-milk consumers and eliminates a payment that supported a subset of Pennsylvania milk producers. It may modestly reduce support for Class I milk prices relative to other milk uses.

## Read by commodity

- MILK: bearish ▼

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| MILK | 2017-02-08 | [Back in the pool: DFA seeks flexibility in Northeast federal milk marketing order -  \| Ag Proud](https://feedsoft.ai/events/72655-back-in-the-pool-dfa-seeks-flexibility-in-northeast-federal-milk-marketing.md) | +0.6% | -5.4% |
| MILK | 2018-08-02 | [Is the Milk Margin Protection Program doing enough to help Vt. farmers?](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5860-is-the-milk-margin-protection-program-doing-enough-to-help-vt-farmers.md) | 0.0% | +10.9% |

## Sources

- en.edairynews.com: https://en.edairynews.com/pennsylvania-milk-board-explains-decision-to-drop-over-order-premium-as-distribution-inequities-and-consumer-costs-prompt-sunset/

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