I don't know how they couldn't be swimming in cash with milk prices where they are. $20 or better isn't it? With 50 good cows total these days a person should be having to pay a small fortune in income tax and maxing out on what they have to pay in Social Security. I nearly did most years. I sold mine 10 years ago. I generally tried to keep about 50 milking,8-10 dry. Those cows paid for a lot of real estate. They put the wife and one of the kids through college and I paid for health insurance all those years too. Milk was around $13 when I sold them. I don't remember it ever hitting $15. I grew all of my own feed. There were maybe 3-4 dry years in the whole 33 years that I milked that I had to buy some corn to get through. I'd think it would be the bigger guys who let the college boys tell them to "buy all of their protein" who would have had the toughest time with high grain prices.
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