COUNTRY LIFE: Benchmark milk jumps $1.97 from March

The Agriculture Department announced the April Federal order Class III milk price at $24.42 per hundredweight, up $1.97 from March, $6.75 above April 2021, highest Class III since July 2020, and 18 cents shy of the record high in Sept. 2014. Friday’s Class III futures portended a May price at $25.01, which would be a…