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Article: Dairy producers face May 17 deadline to apply for subsidy
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
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- March 29, 2006
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From staff reports
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
03-29-2006
Dairy producers face May 17 deadline to apply for subsidy
Byline: From staff reports
Edition: FINAL
Section: Business
Column: Briefcase
Dairy producers have until May 17 to sign up for the extended Milk Income Loss Contract program, according to the USDA's Farm Service Agency in Cumberland and York counties.
From Oct. 1, 2005, through Aug. 31, 2007, a dairy operation's monthly payment will equal the milk quantity sold in that month, multiplied by 34 percent of the difference between $16.94 per hundredweight and that month's ...