If your cows are 114 years old, maybe that's the problem.]
That's why ya gotta buy those really, really small cows and let them grow.
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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“I’ve just seen too much sh1t....”
- So said the dairy farmer
At some point, I think all dairy farming will go away and be replaced by ‘Milk Factories’.
Cows eat grass and drink water. From that they make milk.
And once we find the complete enzymatic pathways, we can make milk too.
Bet on it.
She was only a coachman’s daughter but all the horse men knew her.
That sounds like udder bull...t to me.
In Arizona:
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I have 45 cattle on a farm for meat. It is a hobby.
Family farms are becoming a thing of the past.
A potato farmer I talked to said that just his combine cost over $250K and most of the equipment is becoming computerized making it impossible for the average farmer to fix or maintain. The investmentment and maintenance costs alone are driving farming to large corporations. Plus kids no longer want to stay and work the farm. The article doesn’t mention anything about this farmer’s children wanting to work the farm, but my friend said that his sons had no interest in the farm because of the long hours. Instead they moved into town doing other things.
It’s sad to see them go because part of my family was involved in farming, but family farms are going the way of drive-in theaters.
I have twin boys 20/yrs old (one an ALL-American runner). When home from college they put away 5 gallons a week. They have done that pretty much since they were 7 years old. BTW the other is not wrestling in college but he was rated in the top twenty in his weight class for 4 years running in high school.
Neither the wife or I were particularly athletic. Wonder if it was the milk?
Since 1904, eh? Dang! Those must be some mighty old cows! I grew up on a dairy farm, milking in a stanchion barn with Surge milking machines. That was not the life for me. At 18 I enlisted in Uncle Sam’s Army, and said goodbye to Bossy and the rest of the bovines.
Where did you read that?
Go big or get out......so he got out.
Can you imagine the same article about a guy who owns a dry cleaners?
I read that on the internet.
Don’t remember where. But I’ve seen the usage of roundup on wheat referred to multiple times since.
The part about wheat being a hybrid and allergens you can read in the books “Lose the wheat and lose the weight” and “Wheat Belly”.
yet another screed about Global Warming...
they propagandize us at every opportunity...
the problem is, almost no government programs are ever “temporary” (they just go ON and ON and ON forever, like the Everready Bunny Rabbit)
we need to wean our farmers off the dole ASAP.... it can and I believe should be done gradually so as to cause the least-possible economic disruption for them.......but it needs doing! Besides, every rancher or farmer I’ve ever known was/is a very astute businessman ... with the smarts to do quite well indeed in a free market. None of them need to be on welfare
All I know about farming is, if you milk a bull you got a friend for life !
I get all the milk I need from the grocery store.
For some reason, that sounds like something Ortasio-Cortez might say.
Many dairy farmers in the US are getting a premium price for their milk because they have been selectively breeding their cows for years to achieve A2 only protein status. They are breeding away thee A1 protein mutation which is a few thousand years old. The A2 milk company has farms across the US supplying their 3 processing plants which send milk to 9000 stores across the US. This is the future of milk.https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2018/06/01/indigestion-2-cows-could-solve-your-milk-problem/663411002/
Back in the day farms were 160 acres. Now that is considered to be a garden. Times change.
As we get older, the body does change the amounts of enzymes and hormones we make. You probably don’t make as much lactase as you used to. Others see big changes in lipase (the fat enzyme) and the enzymes that break down starches and proteins. All these changes will make us modify our diets.
I won’t even get into the problems caused by the myriad hormone changes.
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