“A few years before we sold our herd, we had to install huge fans in our barn — the summers were getting too hot for the cows to be out during the heat of the day. Climate change would have made our future in farming that much harder.”
It does say this at the link! Lol!
Should have known.
Boy. If that global warming is making it too hot for the cows in Wisconsin just imagine what it must be doing to the cows of the competition in Texas he talked about.
Keeping 42 cows and being able to know and milk each one sounds very romantic but economy of scale was always going to win. You simply can’t complete if you refuse to expand the business. My “retired” neighbors keep at least twice as many cows not including calves. This editorial doesn’t convince me that dairy farming is on the way out but that this guy is not one to give much credence on the subject.