Hurricane Irma has created emergency conditions impacting the processing and storage of pasteurized Grade “A” milk thereby decreasing the availability pasteurized Grade “A” milk to consumers. In addition, the emergency conditions have reduced the availability of trucks and trailers to transfer raw milk from dairy farms to milk processing plants. On September 9, 2017, the Commissioner of Agriculture entered an emergency order ending September 15, 2017, implementing the same provisions that are being adopted by this emergency rule, which will replace and extend the emergency provisions until September 27, 2017.