USDA’s Risk Management Agency is ensuring that milk producers aren’t penalized if their milk must be dumped because of recent market disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Iowa State Dairy Association Executive Director Mitch Schulte is pleased RMA is moving forward to help producers who’ve been impacted by COVID 19.
He says it’s positive the RMA is allowing dumped milk to be counted as milk marketings for the Dairy Revenue Production or actual marketings for the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy programs.
Schulte says dairy producers have been struggling to get their product out to their markets and due to the coronavirus in some cases have had to dump their milk.
In addition to these moves, the Risk Management Agency is also extending inspection deadlines, waiving inspection requirements and authorizing more crop insurance transactions over the phone and electronically to help producers during the pandemic.
