DELAP Payments Issued in 2009
June 1, 2010
DELAP Payments Issued in 2009
USDA has issued checks for nearly all of the $290 million that Congress provided for direct payments to dairy farmers. The $290 million was divided among, roughly, all the MILC-eligible milk produced from February through July of 2009. That came out to about 64¢ per cwt. on milk from that time period, or 32¢ per cwt. after USDA doubled the volume to estimate an annual production total. This works out to a maximum payment of about $19,200 on annual volume capped at six million pounds (or three million pounds for February through July production), and a payment of about $11,000 for the average licensed dairy herd of 170 cows.
New producers, producers who have not been paid, and producers who believe there is an error in their payment should contact USDA’s Danielle Cooke in Washington, D.C., at Danielle.Cooke@wdc.usda.gov. They may be required to submit a request for DELAP by January 19. For more information, see USDA’s REVISED fact sheet on the DELAP (http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/delap09.pdf).
