3.0.0 1715 2023-01-11T13:21:59Z 2023-01-11T13:21:59Z Senate S S 2011-10-17 112 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-10-17T19:57:02Z 2011-10-17 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2011-10-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N Agriculture and Food Accounting and auditing Agricultural marketing and promotion Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit Agricultural trade Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Agriculture and Food 00 2011-10-17 Introduced in Senate 2011-11-15T17:56:11Z Dairy Pricing Reform and Farmer Protection Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct hearings to assess the implications of transitioning federal milk marketing orders from end-product pricing to a competitive pay pricing system.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a dairy producer margin protection program to protect dairy producer income through the provision of basic margin protection payments and, if purchased by a dairy producer, supplemental margin protection payments when actual dairy producer margins are less than the threshold levels for the payments; and (2) conduct the program from January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2017.

Makes all registering U.S. dairy producers eligible for: (1) the program, and (2) a two-tiered basic margin protection program.

Authorizes a producer to purchase supplemental margin protection at the time of program registration.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a dairy market stabilization program for all U.S. dairy producers in order to balance the supply of milk with demand when the total percent production growth in milk products in a federal milk marketing order exceeds the combined percent growth in Class I, II, and III milk products; and (2) conduct the program from January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2017.

Eliminates the: (1) dairy product price support program, (2) the dairy forward pricing program, (3) the milk income loss contract program, and (4) the dairy export incentive program.

]]> Dairy Pricing Reform and Farmer Protection Act of 2011 Display Title Dairy Pricing Reform and Farmer Protection Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to replace current dairy product price support and milk income loss contract programs with a program to protect dairy producer income when the difference between milk prices and feed costs is less than a specified amount, to establish a dairy market stabilization program, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Dairy Pricing Reform and Farmer Protection Act of 2011 Introduced in Senate 2011-10-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1715is/xml/BILLS-112s1715is.xml 2011-10-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.