USDA announces milk loss assistance for dairy operations

WASHINGTON — The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Monday Milk Loss Program assistance for eligible dairy operations for milk that was dumped or removed, without compensation, from the commercial milk market due to qualifying weather events and the consequences of those weather events that inhibited delivery or storage of milk (e.g., power outages, impassable roads, infrastructure losses, etc.) during calendar years 2020, 2021 and 2022. 

Administered by the Farm Service Agency, signup for MLP began Monday, Sept. 11, and runs through Oct. 16, 2023.

“Frequent and widespread weather-...