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Podcast: Dairy Defined
Episode: AMPI Chairman Schlangen Says Dairyโs Future More Secure
Description: Despite a recent stretch of low prices, a better safety net for dairy producers and an improving market is making now a better time for dairy farmers, said Steve Schlangen, owner of a 60-cow farm outside Albany, MN and the chairman of Associated Milk Producers Inc. A dairy farmer since 1986, Schlangen said that if he had to start all over again, heโd go into dairy farming โin a heartbeat.โ Of the new Dairy Margin Coverage program โ the new safety net for producers that went into effect this year, โto know thatโs going to be here for the next...