NAJ Yearly Objectives
Yearly
What the National All-Jersey Inc. strives to accomplish during the current year
2023 Objectives
- Be engaged in Federal Milk Marketing Order activities
- Continue to work with industry partners to promote and implement multiple component pricing in FMMOs in the southeast. May be a window of opportunity to submit proposal in late 2022 with hearing in early 2023.
- Analyze NMPF’s proposals for a national hearing
- Monitor IDFA’s national hearing proposals
- Class I price formula
- Class III/IV make allowance, yield factors, commodity price surveys
- Prospects to limit depooling
- Senate consideration of Farm Workforce Modernization Act
Research +
- Analyze and promote results of Dr. Mitloehner’s update to the Capper/Cady sustainability analysis.
- Recruit new research opportunities
Be active in dairy issues in 2023 Farm Bill +
- Renew Dairy Margin Coverage
- Expanding milk choice in School Lunch Program
- Maintaining nutrition programs
- Support processing plant cost survey
Organize board and staff communications with Members of Congress and their staffs about priority issues for NAJ, AJCA and the U.S. dairy industry. +
- NAJ has organized in-person visits following the convening of four of the previous five Congresses (not 2021).
- Dependent on Congress re-establishing in-person meetings.
- Utilize online meetings? Lower cost. More participation? As effective?
Jersey Economics +
- Monitor and communicate with members about opportunities available through the four regional Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives
- All-Jersey® and Queen of Quality® programs: (a) enroll new producers, (b) expand services and support provided, (c) develop and promote new products using Jersey milk
- Continue to utilize and analyze the FARM-Environmental Stewardship program as a tool to demonstrate the sustainability advantage of Jerseys
- Develop economic analyses that promote increased use of Jersey genetics
- Look for and advance market arrangements, voluntary and regulated, that obtain or improve Multiple Component Pricing (MCP) for producers not currently receiving MCP or receiving sub-standard MCP