USDA Raises Dairy Support Prices

The government announced a three-month increase in U. S. dairy support prices on July 31 that would put an additional $243 million into farmers’ pockets and offset the lowest milk prices in 30 years. Burdened by economic recession and an abrupt slump in exports, dairy prices collapsed last fall. They are two-thirds of last year’s

Dairy’s Sour Times

Maybe this is what Willie and Waylon were thinking when they warned American “mommas” to not let their “babies to grow up to be cowboys.” Anyone with a dairy cow this year will lose, on average, $70 per month feeding and milking it; more if the cow is also packin’ debt. That means, in the


U. S. To Check If Farmer Income Too High For Subsidy

The government will check U. S. tax forms so it doesn’t pay crop subsidies to ineligible rich Americans, the administration said March 19. “The goal is to limit excessive payments while providing for fairness to family farmers,” said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in a statement. President Barack Obama has pledged to close farm-program loopholes that