A dairy cooperative is applauding the recently-announced trade framework between the U.S. and Indonesia. Karen Gefvert with Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative tells Brownfield a trade deal with Indonesia would likely expand dairy exports to that country. “That’s our seventh-largest market and so to see some of the provisions that are included in the framework with […]
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