Dairy farmers at Farm Bureau’s Joint National Commodity Conference want policy to modernize the milk marketing system.
Idaho dairyman and committee chair Steve Ballard tells Brownfield they’re crafting policy to protect dairy farmers’ access to markets that will hopefully be adopted at Farm Bureau’s annual meeting. “There’s a lot of dairy producers around the country that are losing their ability to have a home for their milk to go to. When that happens, a lot of dairies are going out of business.”
He says the Federal Milk Marketing Order needs to be reviewed.
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