The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) urged members of the House Ag Committee to reject an amendment it said would undo the significant dairy policy reforms proposed for the 2012 Farm Bill. NMPF said the amendment, to be offered by Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and David Scott (D-Ga.), would make dramatic changes to the bill’s dairy title by eliminating its market stabilization program.  “The Goodlatte-Scott dairy amendment guts the dairy reforms that farmers have worked so hard in the past three years to create,” said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of NMPF. “And this amendment undercuts these efforts in the worst possible way: by tearing a hole in the insurance safety net offered to farmers in the Farm Bill. Replacing a robust safety net with one that resembles Swiss cheese is bad policy and bad politics.” (more) July 10, 2012 DairyProfit Update