Bill > S3097

This bill, the Organic Dairy Assistance, Investment, and Reporting Yields Act of 2023 (or the "O DAIRY Act of 2023"), has several key provisions: 1. It extends the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP) program to cover losses incurred by organic dairy farmers that are beyond those covered by other disaster programs, including losses caused by increases in organic feed or other input costs that result in a cumulative decrease in net income of more than 10% in any one calendar year. 2. It requires the Secretary of Agriculture to provide support for regional and national programs to collect and publish cost-of-production data for organic milk, establish an "Organic All Milk Prices Survey" to gather and report monthly data on the amounts organic dairy farmers are being paid, and publish new periodic reports that include organic milk data equivalent to the data reported for conventionally produced milk. 3. It requires the Secretary to publish a proposal to establish new organic dairy safety net programs to ensure they provide adequate support for organic dairy farms based on cost data specific to organic dairy, and to submit a report to Congress with recommendations for implementing the proposal. 4. It establishes a program to provide funding for investments in infrastructure to enhance regional organic milkshed markets, such as supporting the development of new organic dairy processing plants, initiatives that establish institutional purchasing of local organic dairy products, and increasing regional processing capacity to facilitate co-packing and tolling for regionally produced organic milk from multiple regional small dairy operations.