How Trump can make American dairy farmers ‘great again’

Milk marketing boards help to create little islands of middle-class prosperity in the countryside that spin off into other areas of stability.

If he wants to protect the U.S. dairy industry, Donald Trump might want to have a look at how Canada handles this sector, writes Jim Creskey.Photograph by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

May 1, 2017

Dairy farmers across the world are in crisis, in the United States, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Europe—almost everywhere except in Canada. But urban pundits, especially those who believe that the free market solves everything, have a hard time understanding what’s actually going on in ...

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