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Wisconsin dairy processors and Ag Secretary Ben Brancel held an emergency meeting this week about the impact of Canadian trade policies.

Seventy-four Wisconsin farmers will have no buyer for their milk May 1st, and Brancel tells Brownfield processors know both a long-term and a short-term solution is needed.  “I know that they’re taking it very seriously.  I have been informed that there was a great deal of private dialogues going on between processors, and they are very serious at trying to figure out a methodology to help us out of the circumstances we find ourselves in.”

Brancel and New York’s Ag Secretary Richard Ball asked the USDA to purchase additional dairy products for school and food aid programs. 

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