The dairy industry faces potential losses amounting to $6 billion over the next four years if President Trump's proposed tariffs against China, Canada, and Mexico are implemented along with mass deportation efforts. Experts indicate that tariffs on major export destinations could provoke retaliation, adversely impacting dairy farmers and processors. Additionally, deportation of undocumented workers, who constitute approximately 50% of labor on larger farms, poses operational challenges, as consistent labor is crucial for dairy maintenance and production.
If you pick a trade fight with our major export destinations - Mexico, Canada and China - and they decide to retaliate, that has some substantive negative implications for dairy farms and processors.
That would be a big deal, because cows have to be milked at least twice a day, every day, with no room for choice.
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