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KOHL MEETS WITH SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ABOUT CHALLENGES FACING DAIRY PRODUCERS
“There is no doubt that Secretary Vilsack understands the desperate circumstances many of our dairy producers find themselves in. Milk prices have plummeted and the costs of producing milk have outpaced the price they get for it. Our farmers quickly find themselves losing substantial money. We emphasized that we’d like to see the federal government more aggressively use the tools at their disposal to help the industry through an extraordinarily rough market,” Kohl said.
From January though April of this year, the
Kohl is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations panel and has continued to work for the agriculture industry and local farmers by including farm credit provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that Congress passed earlier this year. He has pushed the Administration to fully implement programs like the Dairy Export Incentive Program to help offset low prices. Kohl also fought to include the feed cost adjuster for the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program in the 2008 Farm Bill.