USDA organic dairy programs, production data collection and risk management support would increase under a bill introduced in the Senate.

With congressional failure to approve a 2023 Farm Bill, new milk supply contracts under the Dairy Forward Pricing Program are no longer authorized.

Without approval in the 2023 Farm Bill, the Dairy Margin Coverage program expires at the end of the year.

Compared to a month earlier, U.S. average feed costs were lower and milk prices were up, pushing the milk income margin up almost $3 per hundredweight from July’s historic low.

With a federal government shutdown possible, October’s dairy risk management calendar has the potential to be scarier than Halloween.

DMC margins are expected to improve through the end of 2023, but current futures prices indicate indemnity payments at top coverage levels are likely in 10 of 12 months.

The milk income over feed cost margin should have finally reached bottom in July.

Here’s an update on risk management tools available through the USDA and/or USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), as well as other information impacting your milk check.

High summer culling rates are helping kick off better milk prices this fall.

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