The cost of fuel is taking a bigger bite out of a dairy farmer’s margin. Northern Wisconsin dairy and crop farmer Ben Augustine says, “Trucking milk here is getting way too expensive.” Augustine tells Brownfield he hauls his own milk to the processor, and he’s feeling the pain at the pump. “It’s eighty-five miles round […]
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