The US fiscal year 2008 budget has failed to make investments in dairy programmes, sparking criticism of the Bush administration.

According to the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), the dairy market was exempt from the administration’s budget and recently released farm bill proposal, which increased funding, and steps to modernise commodity programmes to make them more trade compliant and less market distorting.
The proposed spending on dairy maintains funding for the Dairy Price Support Program, the Milk Income Loss Contract program and the Dairy Export Incentive Program instead of including similar reforms.