IDFA’s Michael Dykes: Dairy should remain primary component of USDA’s food distribution program
In video comments to USDA, Dykes highlights nutritional significance of dairy, offers solutions to ensure food purchase program does not distort dairy markets.
Michael Dykes, D.V.M., president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), gave video comments on March 22 to the USDA on a food purchase and distribution program to succeed the Farmers to Families Food Box Program created in 2020. In the three minutes allotted to him, Dykes advocated for dairy products to remain a primary component of USDA’s food purchase program for their unparalleled health benefits, Washington, D.C.-based IDFA said, and he provided recommendations to the department on crafting a program that does not distort dairy markets.
“Dairy products were a key part of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program and should remain a primary component of the new USDA food distribution program, given dairy’s unparalleled health and consumer benefits to people of all ages,” said Dykes.