Posted by FrogCreekRanch on September 03, 2021 at 15:09:19 from (74.95.69.173):
In Reply to: What keeps you farming? posted by FrogCreekRanch on September 03, 2021 at 14:32:19:
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My neighbor down road used to run a decent sized dairy operation in the 80's. Unbelievably hard work for the little amount you get in return. I guess the trade-off is you can walk off your back porch and go to work.
Anyway, he went to congress in the 90's after a local bottling plant filed for bankruptcy. They sold all of the milk they got from the dairy's the month before and never wrote them a check. They knew bankruptcy was imminent yet still took the milk out of the small farmers hands. That put 20 dairy farms out of operation instantly. It's no wonder small dairy's are all but gone.
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