A sixth-generation dairy farmer says the Dairy Margin Coverage program needs to be updated to better reflect actual milk production in the next farm bill.
Vermont’s Harold Howrigan testified this week before the Senate Ag Committee as part of a panel focused on the economic conditions in the livestock industry.
“Dairy Farmers of America would like to see it represent the more average size farm in this country, a five million pound level which it represents now, is a probably an eight or 10 year old number,” he says. “I think the average dairy is up closer to seven or eight million pounds of milk.”
He says production history levels for the program are nearly 15 years out of date.
“We consistently have to produce more milk each year as price seems to stay pretty level, so getting more efficient and doing everything we do on the dairy means growing production, and so raising our production history would be helpful,” he shares.
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