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Farmers should leverage collective voice
Since starting my new position at Wisconsin Farmers Union, the Dairy crisis has been at the front of my mind. That’s not surprising. Each...
Charting a different course for dairy
As many of you likely know, the dairy industry, and specifically dairy farmers are not in a good place. Many farmers are going into the...
Opinion: Dairy industry is hemorrhaging
As dairy farmers, one of our top priorities is the health and well-being of our cows. A bovine disease many farmers are familiar with is...
Dairy Together meetings spark cautious optimism
“You don’t fill a room like this when things are going good on the farm,” Wisconsin Farmers Union President Darin Von Ruden said quietly...
Dairy farmers stuck on a treadmill
Forty years ago, you could count 39 dairy farms on the 20-mile route to the neighboring town. Of those farms, only three are left. It’s...
The time to act on dairy is now
The headline of a recent article in The Country Today newspaper pretty accurately summarized forecasts from the Ag Outlook Forum held...
Milking Scapegoats
Ever since Grassland Dairy issued their 30-day notice that they’d be dumping around 75 farms in the wake of a well-known and long...
At the mercy of the mailbox: Dairies dropping family farms
When news broke this week of farmers being dropped from Grassland Dairy, it stirred within me a sadness for the farmers affected and...
Dairymandering
This week, just shy of 100 Wisconsin dairy farmers who produce for Grassland were notified that they would need to find somewhere else to...
