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Wisconsin dairy farmers hold out hope for Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal

Noted: The TPP agreement expands American access to dairy markets in several key Asian countries, including Japan, Vietnam and Malaysia, and provides new but limited access into Canada, according to Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at UW-Madison. “In some countries where we’d have the opportunity to sell, we would also have to open our borders,” Stephenson said. “Dairy is a major focus for all the players.”