Tag: dairy farming

The COVID-19 pandemic is playing havoc with our food distribution systems all across the nation. And we are seeing it here in Wisconsin as dairy farmers are being forced to dump raw milk as their markets decline with the closures of schools, restaurants, and other retailers. Yet there are milk…

Wisconsin legislators are introducing three bills this fall that will help struggling farmers. The bills take direct aim at a number of financial stumbling blocks that farmers face and are well warranted. But while helping, they are simply treating the symptoms and not curing the disease. Let’s look at the…

Of course most of Wisconsin already knows that but during his visit to Milwaukee in one of his now ‘patented’ rallies, President Donald Trump exclaimed that they were! President Donald Trump raised $3 million in Wisconsin cash on Friday touring Milwaukee to promote a new trade deal he says will…

Thanks to the policies of Republican president Donald Trump and those Republicans who’ve been too scared to stand up to him Wisconsin’s dairy farms are in crisis. A new report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes Wisconsin’s dairy farms are being absolutely decimated, having lost almost 700 dairy farms in…