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Join the Northeast Iowa Community-Based Dairy Foundation, and other spon-sors on a one-day journey to World Dairy Expo in Madison on Friday, October 2. Fridays event highlights at World Dairy Expo include the International Guern-sey Show, Grand International Red & White Show, International Holstein HeiferShow and virtual farm tours. Attendees will have ample time to watch the cattleshows and visit with over 800 exhibitors from around the world at the trade show. Dairy producers and any others interested are welcome to sign up for the trip.Cost to travel on the bus is $20 for Dairy Foundation lifetime members and $40 for non-members; cost includes breakfast, admission to the show and supper. Thebus will depart from the Dairy Center in Calmar, Iowa at 6 a.m. Friday morningand return around 8:30 p.m. that evening. Pick up locations also include Postvilleand Prairie du Chien. The trip is limited to the rst 55 who sign up, so do it today. If interested in the World Dairy Expo bus trip, contact Megan at the DairyFoundation at (563) 534-9957, ext. 107 or at kregelm@nicc.edu. Thank you to the following trip sponsors: Elanco, Fitzgerald Inc., LandOLakes, Mycogen, Farmers Union Cooperative, Zoetis, Vita Plus, Diamond V, Spillville Mill, Nelson Dairy Consultants, Fort Atkinson Hay, Genex, Swiss Val-ley Farms and AMPI.

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Sept. 22 that the deadline to enroll for the dairy Margin Protec-tion Program for coverage in 2016 has been extended until Nov. 20, 2015. The voluntary program, established by the 2014 Farm Bill, provides nancial as-sistance to participating farmers when the margin the difference between the price of milk and feed costs falls be-low the coverage level selected by the farmer.

"The fall harvest is a busy time of the year for agriculture, so this exten-sion will ensure that dairy producers have more time to make their choices," said Vilsack. "We encourage all op-erations to examine the protections of-fered by this program, because despite the very best forecasts, markets can change."

Vilsack encouraged producers to use the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture's Farm Agency Service (FSA) online Web resource at http://www.fsa.usda.gov/mpptool to calculate the best levels of coverage for their dairy operation. The secure website can be accessed via computer, smartphone or tablet.

He also reminds producers that were enrolled in 2015 that they need to make a coverage election for 2016 and pay the $100 administration fee. Although any unpaid premium balanc-es for 2015 must be paid in full by the enrollment deadline to remain eligible for higher coverage levels in 2016, pre-miums for 2016 are not due until Sept.

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1, 2016. Also, producers can work withmilk marketing companies to remit pre-miums on their behalf.

To enroll in the Margin ProtectionProgram for Dairy, contact your local FSA county of ce. To nd your localFSA county of ce, visit http://of ces.usda.gov.

Payments under the program maybe reduced by a certain percentage due to a sequester order required by Con-gress and issued pursuant to the Bal-anced Budget and Emergency De citControl Act of 1985. Should a paymentreduction be necessary, FSA will reduce the payment by the required amount.

The Margin Protection Program forDairy was made possible through the2014 Farm Bill, which builds on his-toric economic gains in rural Americaover the past six years, while achievingmeaningful reform and billions of dol-lars in savings for the taxpayer. Since enactment, USDA has made signi cant progress to implement each provisionof this critical legislation, including providing disaster relief to farmers andranchers; strengthening risk manage-ment tools; expanding access to rural credit; funding critical research; estab-lishing innovative public-private con-servation partnerships; developing newmarkets for rural-made products; andinvesting in infrastructure, housing andcommunity facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/farmbill.