Re: Price of milk
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Posted by barnrat on August 01, 2007 at 07:10:10 from (64.66.118.183):
In Reply to: Price of milk posted by Jim K on July 31, 2007 at 13:44:12:
Your are right Ken, stick to your guns your boss is dead wrong. The big mega corp farms specifically in the SW part of the country are doing the biggest amount of suffering as they buy most of their feed. Just look what corn and hay are costing right now and imagine trying to buy feed for 5-10 thousand cows. Us small guys in the NE part of the country produce most of our own feed, there for aren't hit as hard with rising feed costs, plus we can rotationally graze which can really cut feed costs. A few years ago before diesel was 3 bucks a gallon it costed about $2000 for every 1000 miles a tanker load of milk had to travel. I cant see those numbers working in the long run. The future of dairy farming is going to be small farms that are close to large markets nestled among the urban sprawl.
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