Milk is too expensive, we need them to work cheap to lower the cost.
“Milk is too expensive, we need them to work cheap to lower the cost.”
I trust this is sarcasm.
Milk last month was $14.48 cwt (per hundred pds). There is 8.6 pounds per gallon. Farmers are paid .1448 per pound I paid $5.50 a gallon the other night (CA, I gather it is under $2.50 in CO Safeways).
Yes, there are a lot of middle man costs, pasteurization, shipping, etc, but farmers don’t see that. They do see subsidies but as a result, the price of milk is set by government. Essentially, you pay for you milk through your taxes. If the government got out of it and the EPA got off their backs we would see milk prices change. Let others pasteurize, let farmers sell direct, etc.
We see a lot of the same about illegals here in wine country. Regardless, Australia produces wine without a border for illegals to cross, as do many other producers. Still, as minimum wages rise as well as increased regulation, insurance costs, forced benefits etc you are seeing more and more vineyards mechanize.
I do not know a lot about dairies, but they are already pretty well automated but cut them loose from government, free the market, and they probably can pay what needs to be paid.