Assistance program
Milk Loss Program
$1.3 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.965
- What it does
- The Milk Loss program will indemnify eligible dairy operations for milk that was dumped or removed without compensation from the commercial milk market due to qualifying weather events in 2020, 2021, and 2022 calendar years due to drought, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze, including a polar vortex, and smoke exposure. Milk Loss assists America’s farmers and ranchers recover from these storms and disasters.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Agriculture producers are eligible to apply.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 117-328
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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