Ron Johnson: “I rise today to also address an issue of agriculture, one that I think is of utmost importance to dairy farmers not only…”

“I rise today to also address an issue of agriculture, one that I think is of utmost importance to dairy farmers not only in northeast Wisconsin where I come from but all across this country, an agriculture issue that we are familiar with from some innovative television and prints ads that promote milk and dairy products, not only from Wisconsin but across this great land of ours. One ad campaign asks, Got milk? Well, we have got milk in Wisconsin. And the question is, have we got fairness? It is another issue. Right now the dairy farmers in northeast Wisconsin, indeed across the country, every one of them hard working farm families, pay 15 cents for every 100 pounds of milk that they sell. It goes into a fund. It promotes and advertises milk and dairy products. All of these ads are a great boost for dairy products in general. The program is helping dairy farmers everywhere, everywhere sell their milk. However, there are some dairy producers who benefit from these ads but they do not pay into this promotion fund.”