Dairy Producers Say Aid Not High Enough to Offset Tariffs
The National Milk Producers Federation says that the farm aid package, designed to mitigate the effect of retaliatory tariffs, falls far short of compensating dairy farms and cooperatives for their losses. The payments have totaled only $127 million, according to…
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a letter sent to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Oct. 23 and publicly released the next day, while losses are estimated to be somewhere between $1.17 billion and $1.5 billion. "The Department has indicated that a second payment may be made this year," Chairman Randy Mooney wrote. "We are eager to work with you on a plan that better reflects the struggles dairy producers across the country have faced due to the tariffs."