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Wisconsin farmer says the dairy economic downturn of the past five years
impacted some farms faster than others.
Mitch Breunig operates Mystic Valley Dairy near Sauk City, Wisconsin, and says, “I think it came quickly for some people, and I think that maybe, you know, they refinanced their operating loan more than once and pretty soon that got to be pretty ugly and they were getting ready to put a new crop in, and maybe the bank said no.”
Breunig says as an independent farmer, he wants the decision to keep farming to be his choice and not somebody else’s, and he knows farmers who were forced out of the dairy business.
