Bill limits how much milk farmers can sell each quarter.
S. 4906 — Milk From Family Dairies Act of 2026 · Filed by Peter Welch (D-VT) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill sets up a milk program. Farmers can sell a set amount each quarter without extra fees. Farmers who sell more must pay a fee. Farmers who stay within limits get money back. The bill stops some other dairy programs and limits milk imports.
Who it affects
Dairy farmers are most affected. The program aims to keep milk prices steady and help smaller farms. New farmers may find it harder to start selling milk.
One thing to notice
New farmers must prove they have enough experience and wait for approval. Farmers cannot sell or trade their right to produce milk.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Independents, 1 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $489,143 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 69 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Peter Welch, who sponsored the bill, received $39,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters — $489,143 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- set amount — The limit of milk a farmer is allowed to sell.
- money back — Payments to farmers who stay within their milk limit.
- milk imports — Milk brought into the country from other places.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (33,741 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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