FSA: New Tool Will Help Dairy Producers Navigate Coverage Options

Difficult decisions are nothing new to dairy operators.  However, producers will now need to make decisions that revolve around the new dairy margin coverage program, which gives operators a choice of coverage dollar levels of what percent of the dairy's milk production history they want covered.  There are many factors to analyze in making those choices.

What are the various choices going to cost?  What payments might be made under various scenarios?

To help with all of this analysis USDA has rolled out an on-line support tool.

“Producers will put their own numbers in there, so their own  production numbers and they can actually enter different scenarios and that will give them a better understand of what  levels they want to cover what percentages they want to cover,” said the FSA's Richard Fordyce

Click Here to find the decision tool.  Sign up for the program starts June 17^th.

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