Dairy Applauds Robust Support in Coronavirus Aid Package

May 18, 2020 | Volume 112

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Dairy Applauds Robust Support in Coronavirus Aid Package

As U.S. dairy farmers and their cooperatives continue to weather the unique storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Milk Producers Federation today thanked the U.S. House of Representatives for supporting critical measures for dairy farmers and their industry partners in its HEROES Act slated for a vote later this week.

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In the News

Where's the Meat? Grocery Stores & Restaurants Scrambling to Serve

We often talk about bridging the gap between producers and consumers, but this pandemic has really piqued my interest in understanding what shoppers are thinking about when they go to the grocery store. And how will temporary meat shortages, sensational headlines and more change the way they view the meat case in the months to come?

Resource Requirements of Food Demand in the U.S.

The U.S. food system comprises all businesses that are either directly or indirectly involved in producing and marketing food products, such as the producers of farm inputs like fertilizers and machinery, the farmers growing food and feed commodities, and the processors making food products, plus the food merchants and eating places where U.S. consumers spent over $1.8 trillion on food and beverages in 2018.

Baldwin Continues Push For Investigation

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined a bipartisan group of her Senate colleagues, led by Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE), in writing a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting that the department investigate potential anticompetitive activities in the highly concentrated beef packing sector.