Farmers discuss milk pricing issues

Dairy farmers are sharing their ideas about milk pricing reform.  The American Dairy Coalition hosted an online meeting Tuesday, and farmers said changes in the last farm bill had unintended consequences including the large negative producer price differentials that led to reduced milk checks.

Bryan Henrichs milks 260 cows in Illinois and says there is no simple solution. He says, “Every region in this country, you know, every federal milk marketing order region is very different in what they’re, you know, making their priority for an FMMO hearing or a farm bill fix.”

Henrichs says the changes in the last farm bill had big impacts on risk management tools like Dairy Revenue Protection and Dairy Margin Coverage. 

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