Senate Generates First Draft of Farm Bill

Posted by Brian Gould Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:44:00 GMT

The Dairy Title to the 2007 Farm Bill looks very similar to the House version except (1) the payment rate of the MILC program is increased from 34% to 45%, (2) the allowable milk marketing under the MILC program is increased from2.4 mil. lbs. to 4.15 mil. lbs. from Oct. 1, 2008-Aug. 31, 2012 and (3) dairy product assessments are not applied to dairy product imports. A summary of the Dairy Title can be found here.  A complete copy of the Chairma Harkin’s markup of the complete bill can be found here