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It didn’t take long for USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) to get the Dairy Revenue Protection (Dairy-RP) program back up and running. RMA began posting quarterly premiums and endorsement cost estimates on Jan. 28, the first full day after the partial government shutdown ended. With that information, firms offering Dairy-RP policies can resume selling quarterly endorsements.
A move to temporarily reopen the federal government while budget negotiations and debate over “the wall” continues has dairy and agricultural organizations hopeful the 2018 Farm Bill can start to be implemented.
In a marketplace increasingly crowded by plant-based imitation dairy products, the results of two new surveys show that customers are confused about whether those products are indeed dairy foods and whether they carry the same nutritional value.
All USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices nationwide will soon reopen to provide additional administrative services to farmers during the lapse in federal funding and partial government shutdown, according to U.S. Secretary of Ag Sonny Perdue.
With the ongoing partial government shutdown and debate over a border wall, proposal to create a “blue card” program for improperly documented dairy and other ag workers and protect them against deportation has been introduced in both houses of Congress.
You’re busy – milking cows, managing employees and attending farm meetings and conferences. With that in mind, Progressive Dairyman looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business.
Dear National Farmers Union members,
As you are well aware, a lapse in funding has caused a government shutdown affecting the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and several other federal agencies. Among other consequences, this has shuttered the doors of your county Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices.
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