A handful of dairy leaders testified during the farm bill listening session at Farmfest, Ron Behounek, who farms with his sons at Hayfield, Minnesota, described the current dairy program as a disaster. “In 2022 we were paid $22.23 per hundredweight; our last check we got, we got was $11.80. Can any of you guys cut your wage in half and make it? By December or maybe January, you’re going to see dairy farmers going bankrupt and being foreclosed on. It’s as simple as that.”
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