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Got milk? For now
Jim Mulhern of the National Milk Producers Federation doesn t look like a prize fighter, but when he joined the association, he saw an industry that had let the plant-based foods sector walk over it for too long. This is an issue we ve been dealing with for the better part of 35 years, Mulhern said. The problem is, we played nice. I decided not to play so nice and deploy a different strategy and raise visibility of the issue with consumers and legislators.
HOEVEN & BALDWIN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO ALLEVIATE FEED SHORTAGES
Devils Lake Journal
WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) have introduced the Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops (FEEDD) Act, bipartisan legislation to provide farmers and ranchers additional flexibility to alleviate feed shortages in years with widespread excessive moisture, flooding or drought. Specifically, the bill would:
Create an emergency waiver authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to allow for haying, grazing or chopping of a cover crop on prevented plant acres before November 1 in the event of a feed shortage due to excessive moisture, flood or drought.
Pennsylvania dairies are largely weathering the pandemic, but a new report finds that farmers could improve their ability to cope with drastic events.
âThe key question here is how do we help Pennsylvania farmers to become more resilient,â said Veronica Villena, the Penn State professor of supply chain and information systems who conducted the study for the Center for Dairy Excellence.
Itâs clear from the survey that the pandemic has taken a toll on farms.
Out of 700 farms that responded to a survey last summer, 60 said they had dumped milk between March and May, when the pandemic disrupted supply chains.
Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops (FEEDD) Act, bipartisan legislation to provide farmers and ranchers with additional flexibility to alleviate feed shortages in years with widespread excessive moisture, flooding or drought.
Specifically, the bill would:
Create an emergency waiver authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to allow for haying, grazing or chopping of a cover crop on prevented plant acres before November 1 in the event of a feed shortage due to excessive moisture, flood or drought.
Under this waiver, producers would not see a reduction of their crop insurance indemnity.
Direct the Secretary to establish regional haying and grazing dates for each crop year.