I grew up on a 35 cow dairy, we sold the cows when I was 13. I had already seen enough to know I didn't want to do it myself. Best indicator of the advisability of it is some neighbors of mine- father and son, both with wives who are supportive. Good farmers- got into it by getting into the holstein heifer business in a bigger and bigger way, building their own facilities as they went, until they stopped selling springers and started milking them. Got up to about 150 cows with very little debt, raised their own feed, etc. They milked for about 15 years, and just recently sold the herd. I asked Sr. if he would do it again, in hindsight- He said, probably not. He couldn't fault their method of getting started, and said they always made a living (sometimes a pretty skinny "living"), but with long hours, and at the mercy of the markets. But they weren't really making any financial progress, and they were both getting just plain TIRED. Every time they got a little ahead, some more machinery would need replacing, and there goes the nest egg. Best leave it to the mega-dairies, I think.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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