{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/baldwin-introduces-bill-to-support-organic-dairy-farmers", "Baldwin Introduces Bill to Support Organic Dairy Farmers", "2023-10-25", "2023", "2023-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "WI", "Tammy Baldwin", "B001230", "www.baldwin.senate.gov", "baldwin", "https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced legislation to support organic dairy farmers and help them address economic challenges like feed shortages and increased costs. The Organic Dairy Assistance, Investment, and Reporting Yields (O DAIRY) Act of 2023 will increase investments in the organic dairy industry to ensure resiliency and longevity and works to improve data collection for organic milk production to enhance price accuracy and transparency.\n\n\u201cWisconsin is one of the nation\u2019s top organic dairy producing states, driving our local economies, feeding families from coast to coast, and keeping our state\u2019s heritage of America\u2019s Dairyland alive and strong,\u201d said Senator Baldwin. \u201cIn the face of recent headwinds, I\u2019m committed to delivering the support our dairies need to keep their operations open for generations to come.\u201d\n\nThe O DAIRY Act would:\n\nExtend emergency assistance to organic dairy farmers facing losses, including any time a farm\u2019s net income decreases by over 10% in any given year;\n\nInvest $25 million annually in dairy infrastructure investments, research and innovation;\n\nCall for increased industry organic data collection that will be shared with farmers so they can plan better; and\n\nDirect the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to study the viability of an organic safety net program, which would get aid to farmers faster when disasters hit in the future.\n\nThe bill is led by Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and also co-sponsored by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). The O DAIRY Act of 2023 has the broad support of farms, dairy cooperatives, producers, and associations across the country, including the Organic Farmers Association, Organic Valley, the National Organic Coalition, and the Center for Food Safety.\n\nA one-pager on this legislation can be found here. Full text of this legislation can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/baldwin-introduces-bill-to-support-organic-dairy-farmers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7885061204433441, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}