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Show USDA issues new milk order for Lake Mead area After a favorable vote by dairy farmers affected, the VS. Department of Agriculture (US-DA) (US-DA) has issued a new federal milk marketing order to regulate regu-late the handling of milk in the Lake Mead marketing area (southern Nevada and southern Utah). Officials of USDA's Agricul-tural Agricul-tural Marketing Service (AMS) said the order will be partially effective July 1 with the start of handler reporting and some administrative provisions. Pricing, Pric-ing, pooling and other provisions provis-ions will go Into effect August 1. H. Alan Luke has been named nam-ed market administrator of the new order. He also will continue con-tinue to administer the federal milk marketing orders for Eastern and Western Colorado and the Great Basin (Utah, Nevada, Wyoming). The marketing area to be covered by the order includes Las Vegas, Nevada, the urban area around it (in Clark County), Coun-ty), and the communities of St George and Cedar City, Utah. Approval of the new order was approved in a referendum in which 33 dairy farmers, or 86.8 percent of the 38 voting, favored its Issuance. The order Is based on evidence evi-dence received at a public hearing in St. George, Utah, Oct. 17-19 of last year. ' Similar to other federal milk orders, the Lake Mead order will set ' minimum prices to dairy farmers for milk sold to dealers doing business In the marketing area. It "will not set retail prices. The order will have market-wide market-wide pooling under which all dairy farmers serving the area will be paid the same uniform price per hundredweight, regardless re-gardless of how their milk is used. |