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Study tackles dairy closures

Carter Jones
Jun 10, 2024
Jun 10, 2024

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Farmers older than 55 are more likely to exit the dairy industry and the least likely to deploy robotic milking technology, according to University of Wisconsin research.

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Carter Jones

Wisconsin has lost 60 percent of its dairy farms in the past 20 years. Simultaneously cow numbers and milk production have remained stable. One in three dairy farms closed in Wisconsin from 2017 to 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. The number of farms with more than 1,000 milk cows increased by 393 percent from 2002 to 2022.

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