Wisconsin Dairy Alliance attended a listening session with Rep Bryan Steil, R-Wis, on Thursday, April 25, 2019 in Burlington, WI. Below are highlights from an article by Ricardo Torres that appeared in the Journal Times on April 26, 2019.
Cindy Leitner, president of the Wisconsin Dairy Alliance, said the dairy industry is in a recession.
Leitner said giving farmers access to other markets outside of the United States is key to the survival of farms.
“We’re not talking about steel, we’re not talking about plastic … we are talking about food and our food source,” Leitner said. “We need to pass this legislation.”
“The retaliatory tariffs have got to be removed,” Leitner said. “If we can do nothing else, we’ve got to remove those retaliatory tariffs. It’s very critical. Every day we are not signing this agreement or pursuing this agreement we are losing
Read the article in its entirety at https://journaltimes.com/news/local/the-dairy-industry-is-in-a-crisis-steil-hears-from/article_b757701f-d16b-5804-a5cd-9a2a85d44d6a.html
