Some Wisconsin Farm Bureau delegates remain uncomfortable with creating a dairy growth management system.
Nearly 80% of the delegates voted down resolutions to strike state policy language saying they support the development of a dairy growth management plan that improves the welfare of farmers, processors, and consumers.
Delegate Raymond Diederich from Brown County spoke in favor of removing the growth management policy language. “If they have a supply management to tell me how many cows I can milk tomorrow, that’s kind of not the free enterprise system.