Mark Stephenson, Director of Dairy Policy Analysis with the UW, said that this spring’s events, with Wisconsin dairy farmers being told there was no market for their milk, created shock waves through the industry here and across the country. Even overseas, dairy people were aware of what was going on here and were “keeping their eye on the situation.”
While there were hundreds of headlines about the dairy industry during that time, the whole problem was more complex, he said. “Regional milk production has been evolving and that was a big part of the story.”