Be sure to get your applications in for the Dairy Economic Loss Assistance Payment Program through USDA. The deadline is today to get the applications in, so if you were planning on applying, don’t miss your chance. Here is a bit of information on the program from Julie Sherwood, staff writer
of the Messenger Post.

The application deadline is today for the new Dairy Economic Loss Assistance Payment Program announced in December by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Dairy producers who have production records at their USDA Farm Service Agency county office because they participated in another FSA dairy program do not need to apply for the program. FSA will use existing production records for February through July 2009 to calculate and issue their payment, according to U. S. Department of Agriculture.

On average, the price dairy producers received for milk marketed in the summer of 2009 was about half what it cost them to produce the milk, according to USDA. About $290 million in emergency aid was approved for dairy farmers nationwide.