Supply Management Voted Down at AFBF

Delegates at the American Farm Bureau Federation voted down a proposal from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau to discuss a possible supply management program for the dairy industry.  Wisconsin Farm Bureau President Jim Holte said it’s never easy to change national policy.

"Whenever you propose to change current policy in the AFBF and change it to your state policy, you have to make your case and make it well. We've attempted to do that. We've opposed the exempt policy that the Wisconsin delegates had added at their convention in December. And yet, the majority of the delegates here chose to stay with what the AFBF have had in the past year."

Holte said the Wisconsin Farm Bureau's Dairy Committee will continue the discussion of a possible dairy supply management system.

"We will use our dairy committee to bring in different resources for information for them. Hopefully, they will take a look at what the possibilities are, and follow the policies that our delegates adopted and make a recommendation to our board on how we should go forward within the concept of supply management in Wisconsin."

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