The Margin Protection Program is a big deal for dairy farmers. In the past, dairy policy didn’t require producers to do much of anything to achieve the impacts but now farmers have to decide what they want to do and how that will impact their farm and ultimately their payments.

Mark Stephenson, UW-Extension dairy policy analyst, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences explains the changes in the Margin Protection Program in this podcast.