A Wisconsin ag department official says the tariff and trade disputes over the last year made a considerable dent in ag exports.
Wisconsin’s Director of the International Agribusiness Center Mark Rhoda-Reis tells Brownfield some December figures aren’t ready, but they already see the 2019 damage caused by trade disputes and retaliatory tariffs in several key product lines. “Overall, our exports are down a little over 5%, but if we look at miscellaneous edible food preparations, that’s almost 7% down, wood is down 12%, dairy is down 17%, and meat is down nearly 10%.
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