Signup for Dairy Margin Protection Program

Randall Weiseman October 13, 2014 Alabama, Cattle, Dairy, Florida, Georgia, Livestock

Tom Vilsack

Signup for the Dairy Margin Protection Program has been underway since the first part of September, but the date it ends is just a little over six weeks away. And Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack encourages dairy farmers who have yet to check into it to do so.

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