During June Dairy Month, Dairy Together, a national coalition working to educate farmers, eaters, and lawmakers about how managed growth based on market demand can create a viable dairy economy, is calling on Congress to pass policies and make new investments that meet the moment of the dairy farm crisis, and preserve opportunities for small and mid-sized family dairy farms to succeed.

Dairy Together is encouraging schools to make whole milk available as part of their school lunch offerings for the sake of our nation’s kids and family farmers.

Dairy farmers have been struggling through boom and bust price cycles for decades. The word “crisis” has become so familiar in farm country that it hardly registers alarm anymore. In recent years, dairy news headlines have been dismal as a flood of milk on the market contributed to five years of depressed and volatile milk prices that eroded the quality of life for farmers across the country. Over the last decade, the USDA recorded the loss of roughly 17,000 dairy farms. Many