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Mike

Well-known member
Cattlenetwork
1/23/2009


Dairy Buy-out



NCBA sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate today opposing an effort to include a dairy buyout in the stimulus package. The proposal would use taxpayer dollars to raise dairy prices by buying older dairy cows from farmers, taking approximately 6.5 billion gallons of milk off the market. This would result in nearly 320,000 additional head of cattle entering the beef market, which could drastically reduce the price of beef cattle.

"The cattle industry is not subsidized by the government, nor do we wish to be," said NCBA President and Arizona rancher Andy Groseta. "However, we are subject to the unintended consequences of policy directed towards other sectors of agriculture, such as the dairy industry. Flooding the market with beef and driving down the price for our products will be devastating for America's cattle producers."

Cattle producers continue to experience record-high feed and forage costs which resulted in over $1.5 billion in losses to the feeding sector last year Additionally, higher fuel prices, land values, and input costs caused decreased revenue for producers. "All of agriculture is experiencing the impact of the current economic downturn, and the cattle industry is no different," Groseta explained.

Proponents of the buyout suggest lessening the consequences for the cattle industry by using United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Section 32 funds to purchase ground beef. A similar plan was implemented in 1986, which did not prevent the cattle market from crashing. The 1986 buy-out resulted in a 25 percent decrease in the price paid to producers for beef cattle and sent the cattle markets to the lowest point we have seen in the last 30 years. In total, the beef industry saw a $1 billion loss from the buy-out in 1986.

"NCBA does not support utilizing taxpayer dollars to both fund this proposed buy-out and to try and mitigate its ill effects on the cattle business," Groseta stated. "This is a flawed proposal and we urge Congress not to include it in the stimulus package."
 
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Anonymous

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Apparently another false rumor being circulated by NCBA... :roll: I know thats where I saw it....

What dairy buyout?
By Dairy Herd news staff | Tuesday, February 03, 2009





U.S. Senators are probably scratching their heads over the letters they have been receiving in opposition to a dairy buyout. That’s because there is no dairy buyout.

News that the Western States Dairy Producers Trade Association had asked to have approximately 300,000 cows culled under an existing dairy-industry program (Cooperatives Working Together) mushroomed into full-blown rumors that Congress was working on some kind of dairy buyout in the economic stimulus package.

The House version of the stimulus package, approved last week, did not contain any provisions for a dairy buyout. And, now that the measure is in the Senate, no one has stepped forward to add such a provision, according to Chris Galen, spokesman for the National Milk Producers Federation.

Galen said the NMPF has not asked Congress for a dairy buyout.

Meanwhile, rumors that there would be a dairy buyout got some beef producers worked up, because the idea of having 300,000 new cows go to slaughter would not be good for beef prices. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association encouraged its members to write the Senators to oppose the buyout. For more on that, click here.

http://www.dairyherd.com/directories.asp?pgID=675&ed_id=8109
 

Mike

Well-known member
Monday Feb 2, 2009
Thirty Five Senators Call for Dairy Aid
Throughout the National Cattlemen's Beef Association meeting last week there were concerns expressed about a possible federal dairy buyout. While members of Congress insist that isn't happening because it would look too much like an earmark for one industry, at least 35 senators did sign a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging USDA to do more to help the beleaguered dairy industry. That includes boosting purchases of dairy products.
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
Monday Feb 2, 2009
Thirty Five Senators Call for Dairy Aid
Throughout the National Cattlemen's Beef Association meeting last week there were concerns expressed about a possible federal dairy buyout. While members of Congress insist that isn't happening because it would look too much like an earmark for one industry, at least 35 senators did sign a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging USDA to do more to help the beleaguered dairy industry. That includes boosting purchases of dairy products.

That is already in the stimulus package in the increased Food Stamp and WIC program funding.....
 

cowwrangler

Well-known member
Faster horses said:
There is a Dairy BUY OUT in the stimulus package... :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
i cant figure this out ,they pay our dairy people to quit milking and they give the foreigners extremely low interest money to start up dairies :roll:
 

badaxemoo

Well-known member
Mike said:
badaxemoo said:
Mike said:
"The cattle industry is not subsidized by the government, nor do we wish to be," said NCBA President and Arizona rancher Andy Groseta.

Got to love those comedians over at NCBA.

We agree. "Hot" damn!!!!!!!!!!!

If we were neighbors, we'd probably agree on lots of things.

I probably wouldn't know that you are a racist wingnut and you probably wouldn't know that I'm a radical moonbat, because neighbors know better than to talk too much about politics.
 
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Anonymous

Guest
bump for Faster Horses ....

What dairy buyout?
By Dairy Herd news staff | Tuesday, February 03, 2009





U.S. Senators are probably scratching their heads over the letters they have been receiving in opposition to a dairy buyout. That’s because there is no dairy buyout.

News that the Western States Dairy Producers Trade Association had asked to have approximately 300,000 cows culled under an existing dairy-industry program (Cooperatives Working Together) mushroomed into full-blown rumors that Congress was working on some kind of dairy buyout in the economic stimulus package.

The House version of the stimulus package, approved last week, did not contain any provisions for a dairy buyout. And, now that the measure is in the Senate, no one has stepped forward to add such a provision, according to Chris Galen, spokesman for the National Milk Producers Federation.

Galen said the NMPF has not asked Congress for a dairy buyout.

Meanwhile, rumors that there would be a dairy buyout got some beef producers worked up, because the idea of having 300,000 new cows go to slaughter would not be good for beef prices. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association encouraged its members to write the Senators to oppose the buyout. For more on that, click here.

http://www.dairyherd.com/directories.asp?pgID=675&ed_id=8109
 
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