date:Oct 18, 2012
nded out, while in 2011 milk prices were up and no payments were issued, he said. During the 2012 fiscal year, $3.2 million was distributed.
Stoltenburg said the FSA has distributed about $235,000 per month in the past four years. If no new safety net program is put into place, and dairy farmers are not reimbursed retroactively, that means South Dakota dairy producers could theoretically lose around $700,000 in the last three months of this year.
Jim Neugebauer, who milks about 60 cows on a fa