Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On March 25, 2016 Schumer demanded that the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) protect O-AT-KA Milk and Western New York’s dairy sector from newly proposed barriers to trade with foreign countries. Specifically, Canada has threatened to slow the progress of the booming Western New York dairy industry by imposing limitations on the import of milk products that can be sent to Canada from producers like O-AT-KA Milk. Schumer will highlight that dairy farmers in Western New York and throughout Upstate New York are becoming more and more reliant on the growing global market for the goods they produce.