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Dairy and beef industry leaders share how the Trump administration’s economic policies influence small farming operations across the state


By Anna Marie Yanny August 19, 2025


The Trump administration’s recent tariff actions could make it difficult for Wisconsin dairy farmers to export excess milk products and for beef producers to access Chinese markets, state farm leaders told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”

Consumers are contending with the highest average effective tariff rate since 1933, at 18.6 percent, according to the most recent estimate from the Budget Lab at Yale.

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But Wisconsin Farmers Union President Darin Von Ruden said dairy farmers rely on international trade to export excess milk.

Wisconsin exported over $3 billion of agricultural products in 2024, according to a report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Farm Management program.

“We’re currently coming out of our highest milk production part of the year,” Von Ruden said. “When you have that scenario, plus these new tariffs coming on, countries not being able to afford our products … it stays here, which just then adds to that problem of lowering the price that farmers receive for their products.”.......................