Big Soy is to blame for fueling the whole lactose intolerance; movement.
Got out just in time before the sky collapsed and fell on the cattle. /sarc
Sounds like he milked it long enough.
So you'd better have mighty few expenses.
SSDD wait a few years and the OPINS will flip 180
If your cows are 114 years old, maybe that's the problem.
Dairy farming is little more than hard work and possible economic suicide
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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).
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.
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.”
“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.
That sounds like udder bull...t to me.
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.
Can you imagine the same article about a guy who owns a dry cleaners?