At this week’s dairy pricing Senate Ag subcommittee hearing dairy farmers protested subsidies as a solution for milk pricing challenges.

Mississippi dairy farmer Mike Ferguson says more funding however could be made available to producers for making improvements like with actions to protect the environment.

“Grant and loan availability for operations that are undergoing these changes are an essential part of us maintaining viability,” he says.

Iowa dairy farmer Christina Zuiderveen says subsidies based on cost of production are not effective.

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