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About 20% of U.S. milk production is exported annually, with about 40% of that going to Canada, Mexico, and China, according to Chuck Nicholson, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If the domestic dairy industry gets only a little more milk than traders were expecting, prices drop as a result, Nicholson says. So if the dairy industry started trying to sell that 20% domestically instead of exporting it, prices would plummet, making it difficult for farmers to continue to operate.
“The police are not equipped to deal with a situation like this,” said Ion Meyn, an associate professor at the UW Law School who studies police use of force. “We’re dealing with an endemic kind of approach to people who are in serious emotional distress.”
