{"data":{"id":"us/7-cfr-1170.8","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"7 CFR 1170.8","heading":"Price reporting specifications.","body":"The following are the reporting specifications for each dairy product:\n(a) Specifications for Cheddar Cheese Prices:\n(1) Variety: Cheddar cheese.\n(2) Style: 40-pound blocks.\n(3) Age: Not less than 4 days or more than 30 days on date of sale. Exclude cheese that will be aged.\n(4) Grade: Product meets Wisconsin State Brand or USDA Grade A or better standards.\n(5) Color: Colored and within the color range of 6-8 on the National Cheese Institute color chart.\n(6) Packaging: Price should reflect cheese wrapped in a sealed, airtight package in corrugated or solid fiberboard containers with a reinforcing inner liner or sleeve. Exclude all other packaging costs from the reported price.\n(7) Exclude: Intra-company sales, resales of purchased cheese, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), cheese produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher cheese produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program or other premium-assisted sales (for example, export assistance sales through the Cooperatives Working Together program), and cheese certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.\n(b) Specifications for Butter Prices:\n(1) Variety: 80 percent butterfat, salted, fresh or storage.\n(2) Grade: Product meets USDA Grade AA standards.\n(3) Packaging: 25-kilogram and 68-pound box sales.\n(4) Exclude: Unsalted and Grade A butter, intra-company sales, resales of purchased butter, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), butter produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher butter produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program or other premium-assisted sales (for example, export assistance sales through the CWT program), and butter certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.\n(c) Specifications for Dry Whey Prices:\n(1) Variety: Edible nonhygroscopic.\n(2) Age: No more than 180 days.\n(3) Grade: Product meets USDA Extra Grade standards.\n(4) Packaging or container: 25-kilogram bag, 50-pound bag, tote, or tanker.\n(5) Exclude: Sales of Grade A dry whey, intra-company sales, resales of purchased dry whey, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), dry whey produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher dry whey produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), premium-assisted sales, and dry whey certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.\n(d) Specifications for the Nonfat Dry Milk Prices:\n(1) Variety: Non-fortified.\n(2) Age: No more than 180 days.\n(3) Grade: Product meets USDA Extra Grade or USPH 2 Grade A standards.\n(4) Packaging or container: 25-kilogram bag, 50-pound bag, tote, or tanker.\n(5) Exclude: Nonfat dry milk manufactured using high heat process, sales of instant nonfat dry milk, sales of dry buttermilk products, intra-company sales, resales of purchased nonfat dry milk, forward pricing sales (sales in which the selling price was set [not adjusted] 30 or more days before the transaction was completed), nonfat dry milk produced under faith-based close supervision and marketed at a higher price than the manufacturer's wholesale market price for the basic commodity (for example, kosher nonfat dry milk produced with a rabbi on site who is actively involved in supervision of the production process), sales under the Dairy Export Incentive Program or other premium-assisted sales, and nonfat dry milk certified as organic by a USDA-accredited certifying agent.","path":["Title 7—Agriculture","Subtitle B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture","CHAPTER X—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MILK), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","PART 1170—DAIRY PRODUCT MANDATORY REPORTING"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-7.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"76804e7131487f6df050c092decf283ac9ee06d71179969859df543daa86991a","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/7-cfr-1170.7","next":"us/7-cfr-1170.9"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}