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Milk Loss Program

Program Information

Popular name

MLP

Program Number

10.965

Program objective

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 2020, 2021, and 2022 calendar years due to drought, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, winter storms, freeze, including a polar vortex, and smoke exposure. Milk Loss assists America’s farmers and ranchers recover from these storms and disasters.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2024

    In 2024, provided affected dairy operations that dumped milk without compensation for milk losses that occurred in 2020, 2021 and 2022, for the full value of the dumped milk.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

7 CFR Part 760 Subpart 1600

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Disaster Prevention and Relief

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