A dairy group says the recent scare for nearly 60 Wisconsin dairy farms over a milk dispute with Canada shows the need for more capacity to meet a growing demand. Most of the farms desperately looking for new milk buyers found them before Monday’s deadline. The farmers were caught off guard after they were dropped by Grassland Dairy after Canada changed its dairy pricing policy to favor domestic milk. Jim Trotter is the director of the Dairy Business Milk Marketing Cooperative. “Obviously the end result is we need more processing capacity here in the state,” Trotter said. President of Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy, John Pagel, says fortunately the farmers were able to find buyers. “This couldn’t have come at a worse time, so it was a real challenge to get this done but the industry stepped up to the plate,” Pagel said. Pagel and Trotter were guests on AM 1170’s Between the Lines program.
