President Donald Trump touts manufacturing, promises help for Wisconsin dairy farmers at Snap-on in
WI is overproducing milk--like other states such as NY. Supply and demand is at work here. I think Trump--and gov walker are giving these farmers false hopes.
President Donald Trump touts manufacturing, promises help for Wisconsin dairy farmers at Snap-on in Kenosha
Bill Glauber , Jacob Carpenter and Rick Barrett , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 12:02 p.m. CT April 18, 2017 | Updated 10 hours ago
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But he ended up making a dramatic intervention in the simmering trade dispute between Canada and the United States over milk.
"We’re going to stand up for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin," Trump told an audience gathered at tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc. "And I’ve been reading about it. And I’ve been talking about it for a long time. And that demands, really, immediately fair trade with all of our trading partners and that includes Canada. Because in Canada some very unfair things have happened to our dairy farmers and others."
Recently, Grassland Dairy Products of Greenwood notified about 75 Wisconsin farms that as of May 1, it is canceling their contracts because it has lost its Canadian business.
At issue are changes in Canadian policy that make it harder for U.S. dairy processors to sell ultra-filtered milk, used to make cheese, in Canada. Canadian officials have said they're not to blame. Instead, they fault the U.S. for producing too much milk in a global marketplace that is already flooded with the product.
Trump said he would start working on a solution with Gov. Scott Walker, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
"We're going to get together and we're going to call Canada," Trump said. "And we're going to say, 'What happened?' And they might give us an answer but we're going to get the solution, not just the answer."
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