Farmers offer Rep. Welch an earful on federal price support

Posted on August 18, 2011 |

• New Haven
• agriculture
• dairy
• Rep. Peter Welch

By Michelle Monroe (St. Albans Messenger) and Andrea Suozzo

ST. ALBANS/NEW HAVEN — Farmers had plenty of suggestions for Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., as he solicited feedback about a proposed federal dairy reform bill in St. Albans last Wednesday and at Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven on Friday.

The bill in question is a draft proposal by Minnesota Rep. Colin Peterson. The plan would replace the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) and the Dairy Product Price Supports programs and change the federal milk order system that sets the wholesale price conventional milk producers get for their product.

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