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The Dairy Business Milk Marketing Cooperative (DBMMC) Board of Directors has voted to oppose the dairy policy included in the draft 2012 Farm Bill recently released by the Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Pat Roberts. DBMMC has gone on record as opposing all government run efforts to limit milk production which will harm the future of the … Read More

The House Agriculture Committee heard from three N.Y. dairy farmers that major reform is needed in farm policy, and all three endorsed the Dairy Security Act, H.R. 3062, as the best approach to making needed changes. Friday’s hearing was the first of four meetings across the country that the House Agriculture Committee is holding to gather input for the upcoming … Read More

The Wisconsin legislature has passed the “Dairy Manufacturing Facility Investment Income Tax Credit.” Senate Bill 260, authored by Senator Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls), and its companion measure Assembly Bill 357, authored by State Rep. Travis Tranel (R-Platteville), have each received unanimous support from the Agriculture Committees in their respective houses, and also from the State Senate that voted last week … Read More

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is asking milk producers and all interested parties to nominate candidates to serve on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Nominations must be submitted by March 16, 2012. The Secretary of Agriculture will appoint 12 individuals from those nominated to succeed members whose terms expired Oct. 31, 2011. The 12 new members will serve … Read More

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is pleased with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s updated school meal standards that continue to stress the nutritional benefits of low-fat and fat-free milk and dairy products. A final version of those standards was released Wednesday by the USDA following more than a year of public comment and review. NMPF submitted comments to USDA … Read More

Good editorial article by Stu Ellis, FarmGate on the newly proposed Child Labor laws. How do you think they might affect your farm and your children’s future in agriculture? Have you submitted a comment to the U.S. Department of Labor yet? The newly proposed regulations from the Department of Labor will delay the education of a farm kid well past … Read More

Lots of talk right now about federal dairy policy. Jim Dickrell, Dairy Today, offers an opinion on why dairy policy is so hard to change. If federal spending wasn’t an issue, dairy policy would be easy. But deficit spending is no longer an option. Anyone can propose change; getting that change enacted into law is an entirely different piece of … Read More

The Wisconsin Dairy Business Association and the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association have re-affirmed their opposition to U.S. House bill H.R. 3062, the Dairy Security Act. A recent presentation by economist Dr. Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, confirmed their position. The dairy policy bill recently introduced by Minnesota’s U.S. Representative Collin Peterson includes a … Read More