Nothing worse than a greedy Dairy farmer.
The neighbors got something? Well I got to have one and better and bigger.
Not one lick of sense with them..not one. A dairy farmer with any sense at all would cull the herd, keep the high producing ones, contract with canneries and grow sweet corn or peas or something for the land they do not for feed and ride out the market.
Instead, they whine and cry and run to the feds for help.
You want to know why Wisconsin wants Punky Paul Ryan to stay in? Its the ag industry there. They want to hire all those Mexicans to run the milking parlors.
My ex father in law milked 44. And we knew every cow there. What to give her for ground feed, when she was sick, and what she produced.
Go to a mega farm where they milk round the clock and you’d be shocked. They are nothing but numbers and last about 5 years and thats it. I watched as they shot 8 cows one time after they fell into the manure pit under the loafing shedd.
Cow falls in poo, they shoot cow, their operation being so tight that they can’t even pull cow out of poo.