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Dairy Farm Resiliency Act

Bill Number
H.R. 294
Origin Chamber
House
Congress
119th Congress, Session 1
Policy Area
Agriculture and Food
Status
Introduced
Latest Action
2025-02-14: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
Last Updated
2025-10-29T08:05:58Z

Official Summary

Dairy Farm Resiliency Act

This bill updates the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program.

As background, the DMC program was enacted in the 2018 farm bill to support dairy operations by allowing producers to buy a guaranteed margin for their milk production. The margin is the difference between the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) national all milk price and a calculated feed cost, which provides producers optional risk protection on price and feed costs.

The bill updates the current requirements that a participating dairy producer have an established milk production history with USDA's Farm Service Agency. Specifically, the bill requires that a dairy operation's production history for DMC be based on the most recent three-year history and be recalculated every five years.

The bill also increases Tier I margin coverage for annual milk production to 6 million pounds or less (currently 5 million pounds or less) and Tier II margin coverage to over 6 million pounds (currently over 5 million pounds).

Sponsor

Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. [R-NY-23]

Cosponsors (6)

Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3], Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2], Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24], Rep. Riley, Josh [D-NY-19], Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8], Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]

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