Free trade essential to ag exports

Free trade essential to ag exports

Trade Promotion Authority and the need to implement new trade deals were among concerns raised by farmers during this week’s Farmers for Free Trade Roundtable.

Doug Chapin, a Michigan dairy farmer and chairman of the Michigan Milk Producers Association, says last year the U.S. exported more than one out of every six gallons of milk produced.

“That meant $6.5 billion worth of dairy production was sold overseas that went to the bottom line of dairy producers like me,” he says.