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Anderson said the conference committee should address new fees and regulations included in the preliminary bill that would make Minnesota’s farmers less competitive and less profitable.
New work requirements for federal food assistance for low-income Americans keep coming up in closed door conversations among Republicans as they weigh the way forward on the brewing debt limit fight.
Policy Report: The complexities of dairy policy mirror a complex dairy industry.
Jay Krueger, a farmer in Linville, was skeptical when the new program was rolled out.
Dairy Margin At its base, milk pricing in the U.S. is complicated (How Milk Is Priced in Federal Milk Marketing Orders: A Primer). And the variations in milk checks from farm-to-farm (even neighbors), month-to-month, and cooperative-to-cooperative, and from cooperative to proprietary handler take the pricing complexities to another level. Prices paid to dairy farmers depend upon where the farm is located, where the milk was delivered and pooled, the fat and protein content in the milk and the cooperative- and handler-specific premiums and assessments. Put simply, every dairy farmer...