A dairy group’s government affairs director says Wisconsin’s Farmer Assistance Program which just made direct payments to farmers from federal assistance funding could have helped more dairy farms by eliminating the five-million-dollar maximum gross revenue cap. John Holevoet with the Dairy Business Association and Edge Dairy Farmers Cooperative tells Brownfield the upper revenue cap was likely why the state had fewer farms sign up. “You don’t have to be a very big farm to reach that revenue amount, and that revenue amount has nothing to do with actually what your income is or what you take out of the farm.
