Official Summaries

Dairy Farm Resiliency Act

This bill updates the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program.

As background, the DMC program was enacted in the 2018 farm bill to support dairy operations by allowing producers to buy a guaranteed margin for their milk production. The margin is the difference between the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) national all milk price and a calculated feed cost, which provides producers optional risk protection on price and feed costs.

The bill updates the current requirements that a participating dairy producer have an established milk production history with USDA's Farm Service Agency. Specifically, the bill requires that a dairy operation's production history for DMC be based on the most recent three-year history and be recalculated every five years.

The bill also increases Tier I margin coverage for annual milk production to 6 million pounds or less (currently 5 million pounds or less) and Tier II margin coverage to over 6 million pounds (currently over 5 million pounds).

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 294 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 294

To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the dairy margin 
               coverage program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2025

     Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Van Orden, and Mr. Courtney) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                              Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the dairy margin 
               coverage program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Dairy Farm Resiliency Act''.

SEC. 2. DAIRY MARGIN COVERAGE PROGRAM.

    (a) Production History.--Section 1405(a)(1) of the Agricultural Act 
of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9055(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``during any one 
of the 2011, 2012, or 2013 calendar years'' and inserting ``in the most 
recent three-year history, as calculated once every five years''.
    (b) Premiums for Dairy Margins.--
            (1) Tier i.--Section 1407(b) of the Agricultural Act of 
        2014 (7 U.S.C. 9057(b)) is amended--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``5,000,000'' and 
                inserting ``6,000,000''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``5,000,000'' and 
                inserting ``6,000,000''.
            (2) Tier ii.--Section 1407(c) of the Agricultural Act of 
        2014 (7 U.S.C. 9057(c)) is amended--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``5,000,000'' and 
                inserting ``6,000,000''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``5,000,000'' and 
                inserting ``6,000,000''.
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