106-812. Findings. (a) The General Assembly finds that North Carolina has suffered a significant loss of its traditional industrial and agricultural economic base. The State’s dairy industry is at serious risk of total collapse unless milk prices reach levels sufficient to allow dairy farmers to meet production costs. At the same time, North Carolina is […]
106-813. North Carolina Dairy Stabilization and Growth Fund. (a) The North Carolina Dairy Stabilization and Growth Fund is created as a nonreverting account in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The Fund shall consist of any money appropriated to the Fund by the General Assembly and money made available to it from grants, donations, […]
106-814. Dairy Stabilization and Growth Program. (a) On July 1 of each year the Board of Agriculture shall set a milk support baseline price. The baseline price per hundredweight of milk shall be the average United States Department of Agriculture Federal Milk Market Order Class I price mover for the previous 10 years less fifty […]
