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<em><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">$58 Million Available, Program Improvements Include Increased Payment Rate and Production Cap</span></b></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the application deadline for the Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program (ODMAP) 2024 to Dec.13, 2024. This
extension gives organic dairy producers two additional weeks to apply for the program. Eligible producers include certified organic dairy operations that produce milk from cows, goats and sheep. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">ODMAP 2024 helps mitigate market volatility, higher input and transportation costs, and unstable feed supply and prices that have created unique hardships in the organic dairy industry. Specifically,
through ODMAP 2024, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) is assisting organic dairy operations with projected marketing costs in 2024 calculated using their marketing costs in 2023. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">“Extending the deadline for the Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program 2024 gives hardworking organic dairy producers additional time to request the support they need,” said FSA Administrator
Zach Ducheneaux, “We will continue doing everything we can to keep the market for organic dairies sustainable as they weather challenges outside of their control.” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">ODMAP 2024 Program Improvements</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Dairy producers who participate in ODMAP 2024 will benefit from improvements to provisions outlined in the program. Specifically, ODMAP 2024 provides a payment rate increase to $1.68 per hundredweight
compared to the previous $1.10 per cwt. Additionally, the production cap has increased to nine million pounds compared to the previous five million pounds. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">How ODMAP 2024 Works</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">FSA is providing financial assistance for a producer’s projected marketing costs in 2024 based on their 2023 costs. ODMAP 2024 provides a one-time cost-share payment based on marketing costs
on pounds of organic milk marketed in the 2023 calendar year or estimated 2024 marketing costs for organic dairy operations that have increased milk production. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">ODMAP 2024 provides financial assistance that immediately supports certified organic dairy operations during 2024 keeping organic dairy operations sustainable until markets return to more normal
conditions. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">How to Apply</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">FSA is now accepting applications through Dec. 13. To apply, producers should contact FSA at their local USDA Service Center. To complete the ODMAP 2024 application, producers must certify pounds
of 2023 milk production, show documentation of their organic certification and submit a completed application form. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">FSA helps America’s farmers, ranchers and forest landowners invest in, improve, protect and expand their agricultural operations through the delivery of agricultural programs for all Americans.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">USDA touches the lives of all Americans each day in so many positive ways. In the Biden-Harris administration, USDA is transforming America’s food system with a greater focus on more resilient
local and regional food production, fairer markets for all producers, ensuring access to safe, healthy and nutritious food in all communities, building new markets and streams of income for farmers and producers using climate smart food and forestry practices,
making historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy capabilities in rural America, and committing to equity across the Department by removing systemic barriers and building a workforce more representative of America. To learn more, visit
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