I wonder why Mainichi Shimbun is interested in this...
Oh boo hoo. Low prices? Not in the grocery stores. Oh a bad year when farmers are one of the riches groups in America. No sympathy.
Translation: I need more govt subsidies so I can drive an $80,000 loaded suv with tax exempt farm tags.
Sorry, I have my really small violin here somewhere...I just have a hard time finding it. Does the article mention the size of the milk subsidy the dairy farmer gets?
Farmers complaining. Nothing new.
Perhaps if he took up another profession say network news anchor, he could really make farming work. Peter Jennings did real well...
You can make money as a dairy farmer with a few minor steps:
1) Inherit the land and equipment without any debt.
2) Have a full time job off the farm
3) Have a spouse with a full time job off the farm.
Live on the spouses income, and use your income to subsidize the operation, and you should be able to have a positive income each year.
It’s been 30+ years since Willie Nelson sang at a Farm Aid benefit back in 1985 and people are still going into the farming business.
Thirty years of Farm-Aid.....where has all the money gone?
Sounds like a classical imbalance of supply and demand being corrected by market forces — in spite of a staggering amount of federal support and market-meddling.
If you aren’t an efficient low-cost producer, you deserve to go out of business. That’s just the way it is.
Don’t waste your time trying to talk to people who don’t know how farming works. You’ll get nothing but scorn and hatred. See the replies above.
Or a goat bordello. ;-)