Source: FARM PROGRESS, 10/26/20


A group of 15 senators are calling on USDA to reverse its decision to exclude dairy farmers from receiving COVID-19 relief to cover losses related to meat production. While milk is the primary income for dairy farms, they often are diversified operations with significant revenue coming from the meat of cows as they are retired from milking. In the original Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), the USDA compensated dairy farmers and other livestock producers for losses related to meat produced from breeding animals. When USDA announced CFAP2, the second version of the relief program, USDA made a significant change to exclude those losses.

For more of this story, click here.