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Wisconsin Dairies Get Breathing Room Facing Monday Processor Cutoff


A dairy cooperative leader says the milk producers facing a Monday cut off from their processor have some relief today.  Dairy Business Milk Marketing Cooperative President John Pagel tells Brownfield “I believe everybody that was let go from Grassland now has an opportunity to haul milk to a different plant.”  He says the crisis isn’t over yet.  “There’s still a few people that are working through the details, but everybody has had an offer on the table.”

Pagel says Wisconsin’s processors and the Cheesemakers Association really stepped up to help the 58 Wisconsin farms let go by Greenwood, Wisconsin-based Grassland after Grassland lost its ultra-filtered milk market in Canada.  “Mullins (Cheese) took eight.  Grassland took seven of them back because they were under long-term contracts for milk. National NFO took two. Grande Cheese took four.”  Pagel says Dairy Farmers of America is buying some of the milk, and media reports say Rolling Hills Cooperative signed with some of the producers.

Pagel says the processors will meet again during the next 30-to-90 days to work on long-term solutions for the farms that have temporary contracts.

The Farm Center at Wisconsin’s Ag Department has been working with most of the affected producers, but they are unable to confirm the farms have new milk buyers.

Twenty-three of the 58 Wisconsin farms are Dairy Business Milk Marketing Co-op members and 19 of them have confirmed receiving a new milk buyer.  Overall, the 58 farms produce about 1 million pounds or 100-thousand gallons of milk every day.

Source: Brownfield Ag News


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