Dairy Industry

BURLINGTON, VT—Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, celebrated the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s investment of $3.45 million in the Vermont-based Northeast Dairy Business Innovation Center (NE-DBIC), which is housed…

SHELDON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) held a press conference today at the Howrigan Dairy Farm in Sheldon, Vermont, calling for passage of the DAIRY PRIDE Act to reverse a proposed FDA rule allowing beverages derived from plants to be labeled ‘milk’. The rule…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed guidance last week allowing nut, oat, soy, and other non-dairy products to use the name "milk,” U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced bipartisan legislation…

WHITINGHAM, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Undersecretary Jenny Lester Moffitt toured Corse Farm Dairy today to highlight the Strengthening Organic Enforcement Rule, designed to reduce fraud and improve enforcement in the USDA Organic Marketplace. Sen. Welch…