Dairy farmers continue to defy the odds
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May 13, 2019

Dairy farmers continue to defy the odds

Recent figures released by the United States Department of Agriculture illustrate that from 2008 to 2018, 19,659 dairy farmers left their farms across the United States. However, the remaining 37,468 dairy farmers produced 27,593 billion pounds more of milk in 2018 than was produced in 2008. Wisconsin dairy farmers clearly illustrated what is going on in the

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