Posted by Brendon-KS on August 19, 2019 at 16:07:07 from (63.245.145.17):
In Reply to: Five less dairy farms posted by tomstractorsandtoys on August 19, 2019 at 05:55:36:
When I moved to this area (central Kansas a little north of Wichita) 20+ years ago there were at least 6 or 7 dairies in the county. By industry standards all were small, a few hundred cows or less. Now there are only two remaining and one of those is looking to get out as soon as possible. Like it is with many industries, production is shifting towards the large-scale operations that can invest in technology to do things at a lower cost. I toured a "milk factory" in California about ten years ago that milked thousands of cows on an automated 72-head carousel system. For the number of cows milked per hour there were very few people were involved in the process - a couple to herd the cows into the milking barn, one to clean the udders, one to attach the milkers, and a couple more to get the cows back into the right pens. The milkers dropped off automatically when the udder ran dry and a strategically-placed water jet caused the cows to step off the carousel by themselves. Milking was going on around the clock seven days a week. It is obvious that such a system will produce milk at a lower cost per gallon than the little guy doing 100 head. Yes, the technology is expensive but when amortized over thousands of cows it pays back. It is all about the economy of scale.
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