COUNTRY LIFE: Benchmark milk price jumps $2.02

MIELKE MARKET By Lee Mielke For the Record The Agriculture Department announced the first Class III benchmark milk price of 2022 at $20.38 per hundredweight for January, up $2.02 from December, $4.34 above January 2021, and the highest Class III price since November 2020. Friday’s Class III futures settlements portended a February price at $20.70;…