Farmers in Massachusetts received an early Christmas present when on Dec. 23 the state’s House and Senate enacted bill H3785 to reimburse farmers from a trust fund aimed to protect against non-payment for milk.
“The milk farmer’s bill would provide dairy farmers an average of $20,000 from a fund farmers paid into to protect against the risk of processors not paying for their milk,” according to anarticle by Matt Murphy and Andy Metzger in The Republican.The fund was created about 30 years ago, said bill sponsor Rep. Stephen Kulik. Payments into it, however, were suspended about 20 years ago, when it hit $1 million. It has since grown to $2 million, he said, and the bill to reimburse farmers would bring it back to $1 million. PD
—Summarized by PD staff from cited source
