Alternative milk marketing agreements.

Existing law empowers the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to formulate stabilization and marketing plans that establish the prices to be paid by milk handlers for specified classes of market milk. Existing law requires the secretary to take relevant economic factors into consideration in establishing the price to be paid for class 4a market milk and class 4b market milk. Existing law imposes various requirements related to the stabilization and marketing of market milk and makes a violation of these provisions a crime.