USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Dairy Programs, submitted a report to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committee on Agriculture entitled A Study of the Dairy Forward Pilot Program and Its Effect on Prices Paid Producers for Milk, October 2002. The report covers the period from September 2000, the first fully operational month of the program, through March 2002. Dairy Programs continued to collect data concerning the program after the study period. The tables and figures on the following pages present data covering the period from September 2000 through the end of the program on December 31, 2004.