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Wisconsin Look: Dozens Of Farmers To Lose Milk Contract

Frederica Freyberg:

Now to what may be some very bad news for some Wisconsin dairy farmers. Dairy processor Grassland Dairy’s Greenwood plant notified 75 Wisconsin farmers this week that it will cancel their milk contracts within the next 30 days. That’s because of a trade dispute surrounding ultrafiltered milk, which is used to make cheese and until recently was a big U.S. export to Canada duty-free. But blowback from Canadian farmers caused some provinces to implement a tariff on imports of that U.S. product. Grassland losing Canadian business has forced it to halt buying milk from dozens of Wisconsin farmers.