@article{Rabinowitz:153371,
      recid = {153371},
      author = {Rabinowitz, Adam and Lopez, Rigoberto},
      title = {Milk Cost of Production Estimates for October, November,  and December 2011},
      address = {2012-02},
      number = {1583-2016-134053},
      series = {Outreach Reports},
      pages = {6},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {In July 2009, Connecticut Public Act 09-229 established an  agricultural sustainability
account to provide financial  assistance to Connecticut milk producers during times when  the federal milk pay price falls below a minimum  sustainable monthly cost of production (COP). This  legislation mandates that the Commissioner of Agriculture  make payments to Connecticut dairy farmers on a quarterly  basis. To determine whether payments are necessary to  comply with the legislation, Public Act 09-229 defines the  minimum sustainable monthly COP as eighty-two percent of  the monthly average COP for a New England state, as  calculated by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the  United States Department of Agriculture.
To comply with  state legislation, the Commissioner of Agriculture has  requested that The Zwick Center for Food and Resource  Policy in the Department of Agricultural and Resource  Economics at the University of Connecticut provide  estimates of the monthly COP for a New England State based  on data and variables published by the USDA. Since the PA  09-229, Vermont’s milk COP has served as the benchmark for  Connecticut’s milk COP.
This report is a follow up on  previous reports for 2011 quarters two and three that use  the current USDA methodology and continues the Vermont and  Maine milk COP estimates previously calculated by the  USDA’s ERS.1 This report presents milk COP estimates and  prices for quarter four of 2011.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/153371},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.153371},
}