# Extension of Dairy Forward Pricing Program
> **Agricultural Marketing Service** · Final rule. · Published 2014-03-21 · Effective 2014-03-24 · 79 FR 15633
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-06189
- **Category:** marketing-order
- **Sub-agency:** Agricultural Marketing Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 15633
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 1145
- **Publication date:** 2014-03-21
- **Effective date:** 2014-03-24
- **USDA docket:** Doc. No. AMS-DA-14-0018
## Abstract

This final rule extends the Dairy Forward Pricing Program in accordance with the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill). The Dairy Forward Pricing Program was first authorized in section 1502 of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. The program allows handlers regulated under the Federal milk marketing order program to pay producers and cooperative associations in accordance with the terms of a forward contract and not have to pay the minimum Federal order uniform price for milk. Establishing new contracts under the Dairy Forward Pricing Program has been prohibited since the expiration of the program on September 30, 2013. The 2014 Farm Bill (H.R. 2642) was signed into law on February 7, 2014, and extends the program to allow new contracts to be entered into until September 30, 2018. Any forward contract entered into up and until the September 30, 2018, deadline is subject to a September 30, 2021, expiration date to meet the terms of the contract.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/03/21/2014-06189/extension-of-dairy-forward-pricing-program)
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