Earlier this year, the UDSA released national and state-specific data about the percentage of operations choosing to use the Margin Protection Program for Dairy Producers or MPP-Dairy.The program was created in the 2014 Farm Bill, and sign-up for the program began in Sept. 2014 and ran through Dec. 2014.

Click here to download a PDF of the "InFocus" infographic from the latest issue of Progressive Dairyman magazine. (PDF, 339KB)

This infographic shows the percentage of dairies in each state that are not enrolled in program (gray), enrolled for the program’s $4 margin coverage (red) or enrolled in the program for some level of coverage greater than $4 (green).

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