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US dairy herds and policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture
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US dairy herds and policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture US dairy herds continue to consolidate.
The 2022 Census of Agriculture confirms a profound decline, even within the context of the long-standing decline in dairy herds.
An important question is, “What role did current dairy policy play in the post-2017 consolidation?”Dairy farmsAccording to the 2022 Census, 24,094 US farms sold milk during 2022 (see Figure 1).
If policy deliberations come to the conclusion that dairy policy should be more attentive to the financial stress on smaller dairy farms, policy options include the following:Scale DMC payments by the ratio of non-feed costs to feed costs for a given size dairy herd.
"US Dairy Herds and Policy and the 2022 Census of Agriculture."