Enrollment for USDA’s Dairy Margin Coverage Insurance program scheduled to end last Friday has now been extended to September 27. Minnesota Milk Producers Association Executive Director Lucas Sjostrom says his group is pleased with the extension. He says under DMC dairy producers can sign up for one year or five years. His group is recommending producers enroll for five years.

He says however margins have gotten better over the past two months.

Sjostrom says about three quarters of Minnesota’s dairy producers have enrolled in the federal Dairy Margin Coverage Program.

Sjostrom says the sign up for the Minnesota dairy program has also been extended and that new deadline is October 8. Nationally over 21,000 dairy farmers have enrolled in the DMC.