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Farmers Union & NFO launch Dairying Together tour
Two farm organizations have launched a nationwide initiative to seek change in how dairy farmers are paid for milk.
Farmers Union and the National Farmers Organization launched Dairying Together, a series of meetings designed to get farmers talking about changing the way milk is priced. Bobbi Wilson with Wisconsin Farmers Union tells Brownfield there are three proposals to consider so far. “We simply can’t accept the status quo. We can’t keep going down the road that we’re going down now or the traditional family dairy farm will all but disappear from the American landscape.”
Wilson says one plan Farmers Union likes is an updated Dairy Price Stabilization Plan which failed to get through Congress in 2010.
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