Philip: You will find there is life after dairy farming. I will bet you will find it to be a better life than the one you have lived the last ten years too. Many dairy farmers have a romantic view on dairying. Talk to your wife and kids and see what they think of it. They will usually have a different view. Way too often the better dairy farmers make the cows a higher priority than their family and the family darn well knows it.
I know of no other career that you put in 70-80 hours a week for so little of a return. Also the physical toll too. Just about every tie stall/stanchion dairyman I know has knee or back troubles. You can pick them out by how they walk.
As far as the magazine. I just have to look at my own reading habits. I rarely read a magazine or paper anymore. I read more but it is on the internet. The time lag is one of the big things killing the print reading industry. Whatever they print has already been available for days/weeks on the internet. I often joke I now have the attention span of a gnat. LOL Too easy to jump around topic to topic on the internet.
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