Posted on 12/26/2018 12:00:12 PM PST by ETL
Edited on 12/26/2018 12:14:14 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
After 40 years of dairy farming, I sold my herd of cows this summer. The herd had been in my family since 1904; I know all 45 cows by name. I couldn
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“Got out just in time before the sky collapsed and fell on the cattle. /sarc”
His problem is he is trying to compete with herds that number above 1,000, with sufficient pasture and land for silage.
He’s likely buying feed 8 months per year.
And selling milk 200 gallons at a time.
No chance.
I’ve read that the problem with wheat is primarily that they dump roundup on the crop a couple of days before harvest. When a plant dies, it puts all it’s resources into seed. Thus killing the plant with roundup makes for a bigger harvest, and easier harvet and a toxic harvest.
That and today’s wheat is a hybrid that has far more allergens than historical wheat.
I don’t know why we need dairy farms anyway.
I get all the milk I need from the grocery store.
(reasoning equal to the “global warming).
Well Farmer Jim, it’s called supply and demand. Got more of something than the market needs and voila!, the price goes down.
[[The herd had been in my family since 1904; I know all 45 cows by name.
If your cows are 114 years old, maybe that’s the problem]]
lol- almost ruth bader ghinsburg old
I recall a trip down Golden West Avenue in Westminster in 1960. it was a two-lane road that passed one dairy farm after another--a far cry from the busy urban thoroughfare that it is today.
In addition to the problems described in the article, Southland dairy farmers, many of whom were of Dutch ancestry, had to put up with lawsuits over flies from residents of housing tracts that were popping up in the farmlands east of Los Angeles. By the end of the 1970's, the dairy farms in the Cerritos area were all gone.
Western Riverside County between Chino and Corona still had a lot of dairy farms, but they are rapidly disappearing as housing tracts move into the area.
Many of the dairy farmers have moved up to Tulare County.
So fake it’s laughable. He was prob a greenie weenie playing farmer and couldn’t cut it.
I was diagnosed with spasmodic colon, colitis, etc. and given several drugs over the years to “find the cause.”
For many years I had numerous upper and lower GIs which was torture beyond belief. I was even diagnosed one time with an ulcer - and guess how they chose to treat it? You guessed it, milk!
So no, I’m definitely not young enough to have been infected by the trendy issues of the day, I really am lactose intolerant.
Once when doing my genealogy, I sent off for my family’s military records, dad and grandfather to be specific as none were living then.
Both father and son had gotten medical discharges for, you’ve guessed it if you are the slightest bit perceptive, dairy intolerance, though described differently for their eras.
I’ve come to my condition through good old genetics, not the latest soy craze!
Time to mooove on.
One thing that changed dairy farming radically was transportation and refrigeration.
I can remember as a kid in the 50s several small dairies around the community where I grew up.
Then along came the interstates and trucks with efficient refrigeration systems. Dairies moved to more suitable sites, with larger herds and efficient systems.
My Dad, who had a dairy with another man, always told me that the South was tough on milk cows, and more temperate climates made for better yield.
That's how we get welfare cheese.
Welfare Cheese--Immanuel Lasky (1963)
I don't remember any tool and dye makers bitching about losing their jobs and factories off shoring. They were told to retrain as surgeons and software engineers. NOBODY CARED ABOUT THEM BUT OTH BOVINE TIT SQUEEZERS GET ALL THE SYMPATHY.
Just finished talking about this very subject an hour ago with a retired dairy farmer. His quote, “dairy farming used to be a way of life, now it’s a business.”
The fact it results in a longer “fresh by” date is also convenient.
Yes, excellent point. IIRC, "Sell By Date" is 2 or 3 times that of regular milk.
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You gotta get the best organic milk you can find.
Stays fresh much longer, less to no antibiotics in it, less bad bacteria in it.
Famine will come when too few people have the knowledge and desire to farm.
45 cows is not a farm, it’s a hobby.
Didn’t affect this guy. This story was about organic milk. They are not allowed to use any crops for feed that use weedkillers on the feed stock. It was a phony article anyway. Another hobby farmer trying to make it in the organic industry. With 45 cows, nearly impossible to compete.
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