FSA Out With Additional Programs To Help Dairy Producers

It's a supplemental component to USDA's Dairy Margin Coverage, and as FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux points out, its among enhancements and modifications made for the program for 2022. Ducheneaux, said eligible dairy operations with less than five million pounds of established production history may enroll supplemental pounds based upon a formula using 2019 actual milk marketing's.

"We're also changing the DIPP cost formula to better reflect actual costs dairy farmers face for the high quality, premium alfalfa they need to produce, in volume, that their production needs in order to make that bottom line.

Meanwhile, regarding an amendment made to the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program, which compensates producers for contaminated milk, "An important change that we made, we can now offer producers a choice to depopulate that cow and get out of that production that can only be indemnified," Ducheneaux noted.

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