Evaluating the U.S. Dairy Industry's Perspective on High Priority Animal Care Issues & Opportunities to Improve FARM Animal Care Version 5.0 

Opportunity for Input 
 
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has officially kicked-off planning and development of the National Dairy FARM Animal Care Version 5.0. Over the next year and a half, we will work through the FARM Farmer Advisory Council, Animal Care Task Force, NMPF Animal Health and Wellbeing Committee, and NMPF Board of Directors to review Version 4.0 and design a series of updates and improvements for Version 5.0 of the program, which would come into effect starting July 1, 2024.

As part of this process, we are providing dairy farmers and our industry stakeholders and partners with an opportunity to provide early input on the topics, issues, and potential changes they would like NMPF to consider for this program. We anticipate this survey to take approximately 15 minutes to complete. All responses will be anonymous. The survey results will be summarized into a final report, which will be available on the FARM website later in 2021.

Visit www.nationaldairyfarm.com to learn more about FARM and the Animal Care revision process and click here to take the survey 

Please contact Emily Yeiser Stepp (eyeiserstepp@nmpf.org) or Steven Roche (sroche@acerconsult.ca) with any questions about this survey.