 The USDA held a 49-day federal milk marketing order hearing and listened to hundreds of hours of testimony, which resulted in reform proposals released this week. Roger Kryan, chief economist with the American Farm Bureau, said the changes have some positives. It increases the value returned to farmers for bottling milk through increases to location values and some formula adjustments. But most important, it restores the higher of the cheese or butter powder values in the bottling milk price instead of the average plus price formula that was used since 2019.