California Class 1 Prices Up $2.42

California’s April Class 1 milk price was announced by the California Department of Food and Agriculture at $21.66 per hundredweight for the north and $21.93 for the south. Both are up $2.42 from March. That’s on top of the $2.36 increase in March from February. Both prices are a whopping $7.29 above April 2010. The April federal order Class I base price is announced by USDA on Friday, March 18.