Senator Wants to Help Dairy Farmers Before Next Farm Bill

Posted on March 3, 2011 by tanya brown

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wants to help dairy farmers now. Representing a state that has lost 23 percent of its dairy farms in five years, Gillibrand doesn’t want to wait for the next Farm Bill before changing the pricing system, preventing cuts to the Milk Income Loss Contract program and improving cold storage inventory reporting standards to stabilize dairy trading prices. Read more (Ithaca Journal).

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