WOOSTER, Ohio — A bill designed to stabilize dairy prices and control the growth of dairy farms that want to expand has officially been introduced to Congress.
Known as the Dairy Price Stabilization Act — the legislation is a hybridization of plans by Holstein Association USA, Milk Producers Council of California, and many others concerned about the future of dairy.
Responding to poor year
The past year saw dairy farmers across the nation experience one of the worst price crises of the past 40 years, with prices in June dropping to less than $7 per hundred pounds of milk, two-three times below their normal June values.
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