WESTHAMPTON — Lifetime dairy farmer Henry Parsons wants public schools to offer whole milk to students. He believes the low-fat milk schoolchildren get now doesn’t taste as good and that puts kids off milk for good.

“Well, first we need a farm bill,” said U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, who visited with Parsons Tuesday at his family’s Mayval Farm Creamery on Easthampton Road in Westhampton as part of McGovern’s annual tour of farms within the 2nd District, a practice he’s been doing for 13 years.