CORNING - New York State Senator Kristen Gillibrand says she's continuing to fight to increase milk prices.
Today, while meeting with local leaders, she told us the milk crisis is far from over. Local dairy farmers are under paid and have been loosing money for months. As we first reported in June, Senator Gillibrand announced she was introducing new legislation for the MILC program, which acts as a safety net for dairy farmers when the federal government sets the cost of milk below production. But her new legislation was ruled inappropriate, because it would have to amend the farm bill.
“It will be 4 years till we can change the whole system,” said Senator Kristen Gillibrand, “but hopefully will be 2 months till we can get more resources for the dairy farmers which would be doubling the MILC safety net so they can have more resources.
Senator Gillibrand hopes to get money from the next Emergency Supplemental Spending bill that she says is suppose to be in September or October of this year.
Also at the meeting, Senator Gillibrand said she thinks gas drilling is a possibility in New York State, but only once there is a process that people are comfortable with.
