Today, October 15th, Senate Democrats, Dianne Hesselbein, Brad Pfaff, Sarah Keyeski, Jodi Habush Sinykin, and Representative Jenna Jacobson made the first stop on the Affordable Wisconsin Tour, visiting Necedah’s Cranberry Creek farm.
The tour aims to share the core tenets of the Senate Democrats’ plan to lower costs in key sectors statewide. Hearing from leaders within Wisconsin’s signature industries, such as the cranberry industry, provides legislators with valuable insight for crafting effective and measured legislation.
The visit also highlighted the challenges farmers face and the hurdles Wisconsin Democrats will encounter as they work to address them. Across the agricultural sector, families and businesses alike are struggling under the economic climate created by national and Wisconsin Republicans. The combined pressures of rising living costs, ongoing uncertainty around tariff policy, and the tariffs themselves have created our current business environment. It is clear these are not sustainable conditions.
This was underscored by the owner of the Cranberry Creek farm, “We are happy to have some of our hard-working officials tour our facilities today, to talk about the importance of Wisconsin’s cranberry industry and the struggles farmers across Wisconsin are facing at the hands of tariffs and rising costs”.
The blatant need for economic change is the driving force behind the Wisconsin Affordability Agenda. Senate Democrats have a plan — and over the course of the next few months, it will be further honed by insight from constituents and economic engines like Cranberry Creek farm.