{"id":2826,"date":"2012-08-27T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:15:21","slug":"milk-price-protection-for-the-states-dairies-opens-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2012\/08\/27\/milk-price-protection-for-the-states-dairies-opens-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"MILK PRICE PROTECTION FOR THE STATE\u2019S DAIRIES OPENS THIS WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont dairy farmers will once again have an opportunity to purchase federal insurance which protects the gross margin between low milk and high feed prices through the USDA\u2019s Livestock Gross Margin for dairy cattle program.\u00a0 UVM Extension\u2019s agricultural economist, Bob Parsons, said that Vermont dairy farmers took full advantage of the program during prior sales periods, insuring over 6.8 million pounds of milk.\u00a0 With feed prices at record highs, this insurance can help pay the bills and cover living expenses, says Parsons.<\/p>\n<p>Due to higher than expected nationwide interest last fall, all the remaining funds for the program were committed.\u00a0 However, an additional $2.5 million has been made available nationally by the USDA.<\/p>\n<p>The sales period will open this <strong>Friday, August 31<\/strong>, and it is expected that the demand will quickly exceed the funds.\u00a0 Farmers interested in purchasing Livestock Gross Margin insurance for dairy cattle should contact a crop insurance agent immediately.\u00a0\u00a0 For more information, call UVM Extension at 802-349-2966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont dairy farmers will once again have an opportunity to purchase federal insurance which protects the gross margin between low milk and high feed prices through the USDA\u2019s Livestock Gross Margin for dairy cattle program.\u00a0 UVM Extension\u2019s agricultural economist, Bob Parsons, said that Vermont dairy farmers took full advantage of the program during prior sales &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2012\/08\/27\/milk-price-protection-for-the-states-dairies-opens-this-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MILK PRICE PROTECTION FOR THE STATE\u2019S DAIRIES OPENS THIS WEEK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-croppings","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"outcropn","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/author\/outcropn\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67qLh-JA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}