Items Tagged with 'Dairy Margin Coverage program'

Some dairy producers appear to be holding back from signing up for the farm bill’s Dairy Margin Coverage program.

A shutdown has been averted, but the battles over federal spending likely are just beginning.

Lawmakers continue to struggle with what to do about commodity programs in a new farm bill, including how to pay for increases in reference prices. One idea is to require farmers to update their base acreage to reflect current plantings.