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To: sociotard
Milk is running around $18 per hundred weight. That's around $1.00 per gallon. It's traditionally around $13.00 per hundred weight class A.

A cow produces around 60 to 70 pounds a day averaged out over the lactation period. Feed costs run about $10 per head per day without a labor component. Dairying is not the bidness to go into to get rich.

There is something to be said however for fresh milk being available from a family farm from cows or goats.

28 posted on 10/28/2004 3:44:15 PM PDT by blackdog (Can we possibly have just one more "Kidz-Bop"?)
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To: blackdog
Dairying is not the bidness to go into to get rich.

That is putting it mildly.

35 posted on 10/28/2004 3:53:16 PM PDT by PAR35
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