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Commentary warns Congress is likely to miss the September deadline to renew the farm bill and push it to year end amid a looming government shutdown. Without renewal, dairy and other programs would revert to older, outdated policy levels.
Farm bill lapse risk adds policy uncertainty for U.S. dairy and crop programs, but the direct market impact on feed prices is limited in the near term.
After 93 past neutral policy events, MILK moved a median -0.0% over 5 sessions (48% higher; middle half -0.6% to +0.6%), and +0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.