ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)----At the New York State Capitol on Wednesday, Ray Dykeman stood alongside Republican lawmakers, the New York Farm Bureau, and the Northeast Dairy Producers Association to oppose a bill that would limit the size of dairy farms in the state.

"To say that I’m a frustrated dairy farmer in New York State would be an understatement. I don’t understand how a bill like this even gets remotely this far," said Ray Dykeman of Dykeman and Sons Dairy Farm.

Under a new bill, the Department of Environmental Conservation would no longer be able to provide new permits to farms with more than 700 cows.

"Capping a farm at 700 cows is not just arbitrary, it’s ignorant," said Republican Assemblyman, Chris Tague. "It punishes efficiency, it punishes innovation, and worst of all it, pun

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