Farming is not an easy job and Americans are still doing it. The dairy business is the hardest of all, 24/7, rain or shine and Americans are still doing it. When we tax and regulate our farmers out of existence we will become subject to the whims of politicians and foreign producers. There will be no attraction for Americans to become dairy farmers. Wake up America.
Safeway has its’ $5 Fridays. This Friday it was ribeye for 5 bucks a pound. This $21 “Value Pack”had 3 HUGE steaks in it. With 2 glasses of that merlot I ate a whole one-about 1 and a third pounds. Delicious. I can still do it!
When we got into farming, I didn’t know whether we wanted to be in row crops or field crops (we eventually chose dairy hay), but the one thing I was really sure of was that I never wanted to be a diaryman.
Being a dairyman is the closest thing to slavery we have left in the US. You’re wed to those cows three times a day, every day, come rain, shine, getting sick, being injured, you name it, the cows have to be tended to. The only day when you can throw down your hands is the day after you shipped the last cow.