Members of the Wisconsin Legislature are learning more about the difficulties on dairy farms. Ag Committee Chairman Howard Marklein tells Brownfield the milk price problem remains, and many farmers are hanging on thanks to the equity in their land. “Our cropland values increased 2.3% in 2018 after increasing 9.5% in 2017.”
University of Wisconsin ag economist Paul Mitchell was one of four people to testify at a Senate Ag Committee hearing about the dairy crisis Tuesday.
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