Dairy Margin Coverage Program Pays Out More than $100 Million to Iowa Dairy Farmers from 2019 to 2023
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10/12/2023
The Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) Program was authorized by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). This program replaced the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy). Similar to the MPP-Dairy, the DMC program is a voluntary program that provides dairy operations with risk management coverage. DMC makes payments to producers when the difference (the margin) between the national price of milk (all-milk price) and the average cost of feed...
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