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Farmers say MPP needs repairs and re-naming
Aug 22, 2017, 23:16 PM
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Farmers told a Wisconsin Congressman the Margin Protection Program not only needs to be repaired, it needs to be renamed.
David Cooper with FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative says many farmers paid thousands of dollars each in premiums for the MPP program in the first year totaling millions of dollars, with most of them not seeing a dime back because of the feed cost formula. Cooper says that MPP is perceived as so bad, most farmers wouldn’t sign up for it, even with changes, because they just don’t trust the program.
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