Part 20 New York/New Jersey Milk Marketing Area (Revised Official Order No. 126)

Producer-handler means a handler who, following the filing of an application pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section has been so designated by the market administrator upon determination that the requirements of subdivision (b) of this section have been met. Such designation …

Other order means an order issued by the secretary pursuant to the Act, which order regulates the handling of milk in a marketing area other than that defined in this Part.

Pool milk means all skim milk and butterfat contained in milk except as set forth in subdivisions (a) through (k) of this section which is pumped at the farm into a tank mounted on a truck or trailer for a handler who has included such milk in a pool unit, or a partial pool unit …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) of this section fluid milk product means any milk products in fluid or frozen form containing less than 9 percent butterfat, that are in bulk or are packaged, distributed and intended to be used as beverages. Such products include, but ar…

Other source milk means all skim milk and butterfat contained in or represented by: (a) receipts in the form of fluid milk products from any source other than receipts of pool milk from dairy farmers, receipts from other pool plants and pool units, and receipts of pool milk from …

Filled milk means any combination of nonmilk fat (or oil) with skim milk (whether fresh, cultured, reconstituted or modified by the addition of nonfat milk solids), with or without milkfat, so that the product (including stabilizers, emulsifiers or flavoring) resembles milk or an…

Fluid cream product means cream (other than plastic cream or frozen cream), including sterilized cream, or a mixture of cream and milk or skim milk containing 9 percent or more butterfat, with or without the addition of other ingredients.

The prices specified in this section as computed and published by the Director of the Dairy Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, shall be used in calculating the basic Class II formula price pursuant to section 20.51(b) of this Part, and the term workday as used herein shall…

Commercial food processing establishment means any facility other than a milk or filled milk plant, to which bulk fluid milk products and bulk fluid cream products are disposed of that uses such receipts as ingredients in food products and has no disposition of fluid milk product…

In addition to the duties specified in section 19.3(c) of this Title, the market administrator shall perform the following duties: (a) maintain a main office and such branch offices as may be necessary; (b) promptly notify a handler, upon receipt of the handler's written request …

A plant may be designated a regular pool plant pursuant to either subdivision (a) or (b) of this section. Designation shall be applicable to the plant as such and subject to cancellation only pursuant to section 20.27 of this Part, regardless of change in the person owning or ope…

Any handler receiving milk from farms in a tank truck shall establish such farms in one or more bulk tank units (hereinafter called units) each consisting of one or more farms, in accordance with provisions of this section. The milk of any farm included in a unit shall be conside…

The person operating a pool plant designated pursuant to 20.24 or a declared pool unit consisting of farms in the area specified in section 20.25(e) of this Part shall stipulate to each of the following requirements: (a) Be willing to dispose of as Class I-A milk in the marketing…

The designation of a pool plant pursuant to section 20.24 of this Part or of a declared pool unit consisting of farms in the area specified in section 20.25(e) may be suspended or canceled under any of the following provisions: (a) The designation shall be canceled effective on t…

Except for plants which, pursuant to subdivision (f) of this section, are not eligible for designation, any plant not designated pursuant to section 20.24 of this Part shall automatically be designated a pool plant in accordance with provisions of subdivisions (a) through (e) of …

The following plants not designated pool plants pursuant to sections 20.24 and 20.28 of this Part, which plants distribute fluid milk products in the marketing area or transfer fluid milk products to a pool plant shall be designated partial pool plants: (a) Plants set forth in se…

New York - New Jersey milk marketing area (hereinafter called the “marketing area”) means all of the territory within the boundaries of the City of New York, and the counties and parts of counties set forth in this section together with all piers, docks and wharves connected ther…

Each handler, except a handler receiving own farm milk and not required to be listed pursuant either to section 20.11 or 20.12 of this Part, shall report each month to the market administrator for the preceding month in the manner and on the forms prescribed by the market adminis…

Each handler shall report with respect to producers as set forth in subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section: (a) on or before the 10th day after the end of each month, the information required by the market administrator with respect to producer additions, producer withdrawals, …

At such time as the market administrator may request, each handler shall report to the market administrator in the manner and on forms prescribed by the market administrator: (a) The quantities of skim milk and butterfat in milk and each milk product received at his nonpool plant…

All skim milk and butterfat required to be reported by each handler pursuant to sections 20.30 and 20.32 of this Part shall be classified each month pursuant to the provisions of sections 20.41 through 20.46 of this Part, subject to the following conditions: (a) each month the ma…

Subject to the conditions set forth in sections 20.42 through 20.46 of this Part, the classes of utilization shall be as follows: Class I-A milk shall be all skim milk and butterfat: (1) disposed of as a fluid milk product except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (c) and (d) …

For purposes of classifying all skim milk and butterfat to be reported by a handler pursuant to section 20.30 of this Part, the market administrator shall determine the following: (a) the pro rata assignment of shrinkage of skim milk and butterfat, respectively, at each pool plan…

Skim milk or butterfat transferred in the form of a fluid milk product or a bulk fluid cream product from a pool plant or a pool unit to another pool plant shall be classified as Class I-A milk unless the operators of both plants request the same classification in another class. …

The classification of milk received from producers at each pool plant or pool unit for each handler shall be determined each month pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b) and (c) of this section: provided, that for the purpose of establishing the pool status of any plant with Class I-A…

Accounting rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions of sections 20.40 through 20.45 of this Part shall be issued by the market administrator and shall include (but not be limited to) conversion factors to be used in the absence of specific weights and tests, specific de…

Dairy farmer means any person who produces milk.

For pool milk received during each month from dairy farmers or cooperative associations of producers, each handler shall pay per hundredweight not less than the prices set forth in this section, subject to the differentials and adjustments in sections 20.51 and 20.81 of this Part…

The basic formula price shall be the preceding month's average pay price for manufacturing grade milk in Minnesota and Wisconsin using the "base month" series, as reported by the United States Department of Agriculture, adjusted to a 3.5 percent butterfat basis using the butterfa…

The class prices set forth in section 20.50 of this Part shall be subject to a transportation differential determined in accordance with subdivisions (a) through (e) of this section. (a) The market administrator shall determine a freight zone for each pool plant and each partial …

For skim milk and butterfat received from a handler who is a producer-handler under this or any other order and is assigned to Class I-A pursuant to section 20.45(a)(7)(iii) of this Part, the transferee handler shall pay a differential equal to the difference between the Class I-…

If for any reason a price or index specified by this Part for use in computing class prices or other purposes is not reported or published in the manner therein described, the market administrator shall use a price or index determined by the Secretary to be equivalent to or compa…

For pool milk received by a handler in a pool or partial pool unit, a transportation credit at the rate of 15 cents per hundredweight shall be computed.

The market administrator shall announce publicly on or before the fifth day of each month the following: (a) the Class I price for the following month applicable at the 201-210 mile zone and at the 1-10 mile zone; (b) the Class II price for the following month applicable at the 2…

Producer means any dairy farmer who produces milk approved by a duly constituted regulatory agency for fluid consumption and who delivers pool milk as specified in section 20.14 of this Part to a pool plant, a pool unit, a plant specified in section 20.28(f)(2) which is partial p…