The government has purchased billions of dollars of dairy products and other foods this year through the Farmers to Families Food Box Program in order to stimulate cash flow on farms and get food to pandemic-stricken...

In late November, hundreds of dairy farmers received letters from a Minnesota law firm representing the Dean Foods Estate

In the debate for President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of agriculture, many names were reported and discussed, but a familiar one emerged as the top choice: Tom Vilsack, who served as USDA Secretary...

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the December 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

More U.S. dairy products have likely moved through government programs in 2020 than at any other point in the past 30 years. How much of an impact have those purchases had on dairy prices?

“The volatility within dairy has been very, very extreme,” said Kyle Schrad, vice president of Global Dairy and Food Operations at StoneX Financial Corporation. (Figure 1)

The dairy industry is in a much better financial position today than anyone would have thought back in late March when the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to create unprecedented effects across the country

“2020 has certainly been a roller coaster year,” said dairy analyst Matt Gould, stating the obvious during the Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence’s “Navigating the Numbers”...

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the October 10, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the August 25, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

In your September 10, 2020 issue . . .COULD DAIRY’S “V-SHAPED” RECOVERY transcend into a “W-shaped” price swoon? If shifted from a “V” to a “W-shaped”...

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the August 10, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

“If you happened to max out on Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC), are going to receive Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments, you did Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP), or are locked in at a...

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the June 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

While the dairy industry and many agriculture commodities have seen better prices in the last few weeks, market fluctuations and pessimism still prevail in the countryside

More than $545 million in producer payments through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) have already been approved by the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)

It’s June Dairy Month, and we need to tell dairy’s great story

With last week’s initiation of sign up for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), farmers now have some clarity on the various programs available to them and can begin to formulate their...

Dairy farmers will definitely need to make a trip to their respective USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)

The pandemic-related bottlenecks for agriculture have been well-documented in news reports. The question stands: Which ones can be remedied moving forward?