“It’s hard to get people that want to come out and do this type of work,” he told Bloomberg.
According to a report conducted for the National Milk Producers Federation, Trump’s plan could result in the closure of nearly 7,000 farms, the loss of more than 200,000 jobs and a 50 billion pound decrease in milk production.
The report also indicated that eliminating immigrant labor could reduce the American dairy herd by 2.1 million cows, see retail milk prices increase by 90 per cent, and reduce the U.S. economic output by $32 billion.
Some producers who were previously in favor of Trump are considering changing their allegiance to protect their livelihoods.
“With my group of friends, we kind of joked around and said, ‘Wow, did you ever think you’d vote for Hillary?”’, Mitch Breuning, president of the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin, told Bloomberg.