Posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on October 18, 2019 at 06:33:20 from (199.192.180.1):
I talked with my neighbor north of me that milks 180 or so. He said our county has 6 dairy farms left milking cows. Hard to believe. When I was young grade B dairy was pushed out and if you wanted to continue milking you had to use a bulk tank and move to grade A. At that time they said there were just over 200 dairies in our county. Now 6. Guess the number of lactating cows hasn't changed much, in fact they claim more cows are milked now than in the 60s. Just think how many less pick up trucks are sold each year for the small dairy guys. How many mowers, rakes and balers sold to keep those cows fed. Think how many guys went to town each week to the hardware store to get some nuts, bolts, nails or paint. While in town they fueled up the pick up, maybe grabbed a burger. Now there are only a couple kids in each class at school who are growing up on a farm. Most all of the farm kids hung out together in school back in the day. That social group is now gone from the hallways. The group of boys with work boots, carhart jackets and seed corn hats gone. Never will the hallways get a hint of barn smell from the kid who helped his Dad do morning chores and was running late so he had to skip a shower so he wouldn't miss the bus. Guess its isn't so hard to imagine. I watched the farms disappear that sold eggs, boilers or turkeys. Then the hog farms dropped one at a time. Somewhere along the line the sheep farms vanished. Now we are down to 6 dairies. We do have the mega hog barns. Where the guy who owns the barns doesn't own the pigs,some don't even feed them. So we do have hogs, just not hog farmers. Each guy is a cash crop farmer who wanted free hog poop so he built a barn. Some how this isn't the same.Guess I am someone who hates to see change. Al
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