Mulhern: Dairy Supply Management Program Not Likely

Changes to the Margin Protection Program for dairy will ease costs of the program for dairy farmers, but the National Milk Producers Federation says a dairy supply management program is not likely in the near future.  NMPF's Jim Mulhern said while things are not great in the dairy industry right now, the White House and Congress are not supportive of any supply management programs.

"You know, we fought long and hard in 2014 to get supply management into our program, MPP was only one half of our policy proposal, the market stabilization program we had proposed was really even a mild form of supply management."

Mulhern said he's not interested in misleading producers into a false sense of hope.

"Even that mild form of supply management was attacked as Communism, as Socialism, and defeated on the House floor.  There is not an appetite or support in the Congress today for supply management.  No other major commodity has supply management.  I mean unfortunately, it's just not going to happen."

Meanwhile, current MPP enrollment ends June 1st.​

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