Milk Loss Program

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 2023, and 2024 calendar years due to drought, wildfires, hurr

This assistance listing provides basic Milk Loss Program (MLP) information regarding the program authorization, objectives, and funding in addition to the requirements for the affected farmers seeking assistance for uncompensated milk due to a severe weather event.

Agriculture producers are eligible to apply.

Payments will offset the losses due to milk dumped without compensation for the years of 2020 through 2022.

There are no restrictions placed on the time permitted to spend the money awarded. Payments will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Application received after all funds are used will not be paid.

The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA County Committees to eligible affected farmers.

Requesters seeking administrative appeal of a denial of a request for records or denial of a fee waiver must ensure that the appeal is received by the agency within 45 days of the date of the letter. (b) Provide for review of appeals by an official different from the official or officials designated to make initial denials. (c) 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(6)(A)(ii) provides that each agency in the Department to which an appeal of a denial is submitted shall inform the requester of its determination concerning that appeal within 20 working days (excepting Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays), plus any extension authorized by §1.16, of its date of receipt. If the agency determines to grant the appeal, it shall inform the requester of any conditions surrounding the granting of the request and the approximate date upon which compliance will be affected. If the agency grants only a portion of the appeal, it shall treat the portion not granted as a denial. If it determines to deny the appeal either in part or in whole, it shall inform the requester of that decision and of the following: (1) The reasons for denial; (2) The name and title or position of each person responsible for denial of the appeal; and (3) The right to judicial review of the denial in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4). (d) Each agency, upon a determination that it wishes to deny an appeal, shall send a copy of the records requested and of all correspondence relating to the request to the Assistant General Counsel (AGC) , General Law Division, Office of the General Counsel. When the volume of records is so large as to make sending a copy impracticable, the agency shall enclose an informative summary of those records. The agency shall not deny an appeal until it receives concurrence from the AGC. The AGC shall promptly review the matter (including coordination with the agency) and render all necessary assistance to enable the agency to respond to the appeal within the deadline or any extension.