Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I’m done

Washington Post ^ | Dec 21, 2018 | Jim Goodman

[daniel1212]

It is hard to see how supposedly rising temperatures are a problem if your competition is located in Texas!

Astute observation that WAPO likely did not see.

[daniel1212]

Yes, I lived for a year in Upstate New York, in the center of what at least was dairy farm country. In fact, I had bought and lived in an old farm house (1876). Although we only had about 3/4 of an acre, a farmer who lived down the road owned much of the land around us. Our property was actually once his. Directly across the road from our front porch he kept some of his existing dairy cows. Anyway, he had subdivided much of the land he had owned and sold the properties as individual lots. He said the business had slowed considerably.

With a birth rate of about 12.6 children, and with immigrants that do not drink much milk, plus the attacks on it, plus the price of land in places like NY, that is no surprise.

[daniel1212]

For about 20 years I worked for one of the very few producer-retailers in our MA state. Had about 350 head. Got quite a few humorous stories, praise the Lord. Just ask.

[Leep]

Now that was cheesy.

[daniel1212]

Time to hoof it out of here.