Around the country, milk buyers are looking for the best way to right-size their milk supply. Here are three letters with three different approaches. If you have received a letter from your buyer that has not yet been posted here, please share them with me and I'll post them.

Many organizations have not had a supply management program in place before coronavirus crisis, and need to rapidly learn how to do it. We need to help them by sharing approaches/experiences from others.

Darigold production management program assessments and forecast. Base production can be traded among members, and value is up substantially recently.

Land O’ Lakes email to a producer in MN. I am trying to get more detailed docs on growing one’s base and if base can be traded among members. Both DFA and Darigold allow trading.

Lactalis informed producers in Idaho they will purchase 10% less milk from them starting May 2.

One more document on Select and DFA in Southwest.

Similarly to Lactalis, Grande Cheese Company notified their producers that as of this week Grande will only be buying 80% of their average Jan-Mar production. Help available with logistics with temporary alternative markets (e.g. hog farms). I don't have the letter yet.