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Dairy Group Wins Tax Credits

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced in November the state will be supporting the expansion of Agropur Dairy Cooperative in Little Chute with up to $4.5 million in business tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development…

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U.S. Dairy Sector Struggling

The U.S. dairy industry, the largest in the world, is under severe pressure as the consumption habits of Americans shift, data show. Borden Dairy filed for bankruptcy protection, the second major U.S. dairy to do…

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Report Raises Milk Production Outlook

The USDA’s latest World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, released in June, raised 2021-22 milk production forecasts due to higher cow numbers, with the outlook for prices mixed. For 2021, the USDA forecasts milk…

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Milk Sector Also Needs More Drivers

Coming soon to an industry near you (or already here): a truck-driver shortage. There’s currently a nationwide deficit of both long-haul and short-run truck drivers, and it will impact the transit of bulk milk, feed…

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Milk Production Continues To Drop

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service shows milk production continues to decline. After many years of depressed prices, some dairy farmers faced an extremely tough year in 2020 with a global…

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Milk Sector Requests More Aid

U.S. milk producers asked the government to increase aid payments to the industry to offset losses from foreign tariffs, saying dairy farmers have lost more than $1 billion in income since May.
The administration of…

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