mpp

Enrollment for the new Dairy MPP continues through the end of this month.  Dairy producers who haven’t already have until June 1st to review the changes to the program and sign up.  Enrollment opened in early April after USDA announced changes to the program stemming from the Bipartisan Budget Act passed by Congress in February.   At the time, the...

Dairy prices are falling, and they are falling more than expected.  The USDA's Outlook Board has lowered its price forecast this month, taking the average all-milk price for the year down to projected $15.85 cwt, roughly 10% less than what producers saw last year.  ...

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said although cotton and dairy did not fare so well in the 2014 Farm Bill, things are looking up for both sectors in the bill's 2018 edition.  He added both have been addressed in the bipartisan budget act that has been passed so far this year.  ...

On Tuesday, the USDA announced the reopening of enrollment for the “new and improved” Margin Protection Program for Dairy.  USDA says the program, changed by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, will provide better protections for dairy producers from volatile milk and feed prices.  Agriculture Secreta...

Citing costs and a lack of pay out, some dairy producers have asked for changes in the dairy Margin Protection Program, and now they are seeing results.  Agriculture Department Chief Economist Rob Johansson said in the brand new federal spending bill, MPP was adjusted. ...

2018 promises to be a big year for the dairy industry.  An important part of the conversation will be managing volatility and how to improve current price support programs.  Like all of agriculture, the dairy industry is eagerly awaiting the launch of a new Farm Bill.   ...

The dairy safety net in the farm bill needs to be fixed.  Scott Brown, University of Missouri dairy economist, says the thing he’d like to see is more participation in the safety net, known as the Margin Protection Program.   “The last thing I’d like to see is a disaster happen and no one has signed up for the program,” says Brown.   A good-sized number of option...

USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue says the calculations used in the Margin Protection Program have hurt dairy producers who enrolled and will have to be addressed in the next Farm Bill.   That’s one of the reasons that dairy producers have the option of dropping out of the MPP program for fiscal year 2018, but it’s not the only reason according to FSA Acting Administrator Chris Beyerhelm who cited the i

The Senate Appropriations Committee released details of their ag appropriations bill last week and the dairy industry is throwing their support behind changes made to the Margin Protection Program, or MPP.   The two big changes include a reduction in premiums that producers pay for the first five million pounds of milk coverage in the program and a change to the USDA’s calculation of the actual ma

The traditional beginning of the Dairy Margin Protection Program, or MPP, is the first week of July, but that has been pushed back to September 1st.   Chris Bieker with the Washington State office of the Farm Service Agency says it was done to help local offices handle the many priorities of the FSA.  ...