The USDA published a proposed rule for mandatory dairy product price reporting in Friday’s Federal Register. This rule will transfer the dairy product prices program from the National Agricultural Statistics Service to the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), as NMPF had originally proposed; require plants to report prices electronically; move up the plant reporting deadline by one day, to Tuesday at noon, for products sold the week before ending with Saturday; and specify the deadline for publication by AMS at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Comments on this proposed rule are due August 9.