USDA extended the deadline for the new Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program. The new deadline is Aug. 11. The extension gives Wisconsin organic dairy producers about two more weeks to apply for ODMAP.
The program helps producers mitigate market volatility, higher input costs, and unstable feed supply that created hardships in the industry.
Through the Farm Service Agency, $104 million is available to organic dairies to assist with projected marketing costs in 2023. Eligible producers include certified organic dairy operations that produce milk from cows, goats and sheep.
FSA calculates ODMAP assistance using a producers’ marketing costs in 2022. For new, transitioning or expanded organic dairy operations, assistance is based on projected marketed production in 2023. Eligible producers include certified organic dairy operations that produce milk from cows, goats and sheep.
FSA will make an initial ODMAP payment to eligible applicants factored by 75 percent. If funds remain at the end of the application period, an additional payment may go out to eligible producers.
How To Apply
Producers should contact their local Wisconsin FSA USDA Service Center. To complete the ODMAP application, producers must certify to pounds of 2022 milk production or to a projection of marketed pounds in 2023, if applicable, and submit a completed application form.
At the time of application, organic dairy operations are required to provide their USDA certification of organic status confirming the operation as an organic dairy in 2023 and 2022 along with the certification of 2022 milk production in hundredweight.
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