Arkansas Dairy Cooperative, Inc. v. United States Department of Agriculture

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EMMET G. SULLIVAN, District Judge.

This case was filed by a group of dairy producers and cooperatives seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from an interim final order of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) that reduces the minimum prices dairy farmers receive under federal milk marketing orders (“FMMO”). 1 Plaintiffs contend that they would be irreparably harmed by allegedly unlawful changes to the minimum price formulas used to determine prices paid to dairy farmers. They maintain that the interim final rule that increases the “make allowance” 2 factors in the…