Tim Walz: “Dairy farming is risky business. You've heard that from them themselves. These are the folks that are up at 4 a.m.…”

“Dairy farming is risky business. You've heard that from them themselves. These are the folks that are up at 4 a.m., rain, shine, snow or sleet--doesn't matter--7 days a week, 365 days a year milking cows, and then they do it again 12 hours later. They don't get rich off this. They don't get sick time, and they don't get paid holidays. They get no time off if you want to get to it. The one thing we can provide them is certainty and take the volatility out of the market to make sure that when they have a bad year, we don't end up liquidating these, consolidating into large dairies and harming the very people that the people who support this amendment claim to support. I ask my colleagues to reject this amendment and do the right thing for these hardworking Americans.”