Sentences with phrase «federal dairy policy»

Dairy Counts empowers participants with the tools needed to take a more complete and active role in determining the future of federal dairy policy, and entails three key elements:

That means we farmers need to get smart and demand a federal dairy policy that holds back the floodwaters of an oversupply of milk.

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Canada's dairy sector receives tariff and quota protections from the federal government, and also benefits from a new policy, the so - called Class 7 pricing formula, which helps it deal with the leftover skim milk from butter - making.

Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.

Mark Stephenson, director of dairy policy analysis with the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and, Dr. Andrew Novakovic, professor of agricultural economics at Cornell University, addressed the history and ideas behind federal milk orders.

«The federal organic regulations make it very clear that all organic livestock must have access to the outdoors and that ruminants, like dairy cows, must have access to pasture,» Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute said in 2014.

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FLPC will assist the Good Food Institute, whose goal is to disrupt animal agriculture by supporting plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, to research and identify the federal laws and policies that facilitate or impede plant and culture - based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs.

A report on the commodity program published by Public Voice asserts that firmly entrenched dairy policies are a major impediment to the federal governments's goal of providing children with school lunches that meet U.S. dietary guidelines.

But current federal farm policies make organic dairy farming more difficult than it needs to be, and tend to reduce organic dairy production and consumption.