Dairy Industry Groups Hold Press Conference on Labor Shortage

Groups like the American Business Immigration Coalition Action, the National Milk Producers Federation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and many others involved in U.S. dairy held a press conference on labor shortages during World dairy Expo in Wisconsin.  The organizations said the press conference was an effort to help call attention to the urgency of fixing the national farm labor shortage by passing new agriculture workforce solutions in the Senate.

Brody Stapel, president of the Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative Board, says dairy is a unique industry with different challenges than any other sector of agriculture.  “Our cows must be milked twice a day, every day, and our raw product is extremely perishable,” he said. “That makes a steady workforce that much more important.”

Walt Moore, president of the American Dairy Coalition, applauded the House of Representatives for passing Dan Newhouse's Farm Workforce Modernization Act and said it’s urgent that Senators from across the country do the same.

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