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Lawmakers reach deal on dairy bill
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. , who is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations "Dairy farmers are struggling just to stay afloat through this storm of mounting costs and depressed prices ... Right now another day of farming means another day of losses. I know that Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and President Obama know how severe this dairy crisis is, and I am confident that they will put this help into farmers' hands as quickly as the can, once Congress passes it." Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt. , introduced the emergency support amendment to the Department of Agriculture appropriations bill, which originally passed in the Senate by a vote of 60 to 37. Full Article at Brattleboro ReformerDairy farmers are struggling just to stay afloat through this storm of mounting costs and depressed prices ... Right now another day of farming means another day of losses. I know that Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and President Obama know how severe this dairy crisis is, and I am confident that they will put this help into farmers' hands as quickly as the can, once Congress passes it.
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Lawmakers reach deal on dairy bill
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This is going to be made as a direct payment to farmers and it is coming at a good time. It is going to be very helpful ... It will definitely help with some their immediate needs.
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I don't know any farmer that is making money through all of this ... It cost us between $17 and $18 to produce, and when we're getting about $13, another $2 of even $5 is still not going to get us there. We've burned up a lot of equity since February. We're not giving up yet, but we talk about it everyd...
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Everybody who knows about dairy pricing knows that it is very complicated ... We need to take a long-term view but we are doing what we can right now to address this in the short term. This is not going to solve every problem, but this check is going to help.
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Our main goal in passing this was not to support corporate farms, but to support family based agriculture ... Farmers in every state should benefit by this but the focus was not to benefit every cow in a two thousand or 10 thousand cow herd but to focus on small, family farms.
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