Milk prices
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04/07/18 11:38 PM
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Sure is bad times for dairy farmers. I see it 1st hand living near a lot of farmers. The younger generation isn't able to make it. I don't know what's going to happen with farms & farmers. 1 farmer I was talking to said a milk plant actually sent a suicide prevention letter to it's farmers. Here's 1 article that sums up some of the issues for conventional & organic dairy farmers. https://www.google.com/amp/lacrossetribu...b8f8f0.amp.html
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Re: Milk prices
[Re: AJE]
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04/08/18 04:35 AM
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Im doing my part. I drink 1 gallon a day. Big glass in the morn, milk with my lunch, milk with dinner, and milk on my end-table as i watch TV, reload shells, fletch arrows or tinker with traps. Probably why im fat as a toad.
I will gladly feast on those who would subdue me.
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Re: Milk prices
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04/08/18 06:34 AM
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I heard walmart has their own farms? Is that why they are 1.40 a gallon vs the small local grocery at 2.75 or 3.00? I bought a gallon last week, at Kroger, for 99 cents. Yesterday day I bought a gallon, at Aldi, for 99 cents. It looks like 99 cents a gallon is the price around here.
My name ain't Keith
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Re: Milk prices
[Re: swift4me]
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04/08/18 08:03 AM
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What FlyingFinn said is definitely the case here in France. Small to medium dairy farmers all over France are losing money every day and have been for years due to imported milk from Germany and Poland.
Sad to see, but the government has done little to help.
Pete Here in the very opposite of your last sentence is true. Government has been trying to 'help' farmers of every stripe for generations. Their involvement, no surprise, has made things worse.
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Re: Milk prices
[Re: AJE]
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04/08/18 09:44 AM
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^ you see that a lot. Some have to have the biggest and the best and then bust. It is a scary thing if you look at the farming business in the next even 25 years. How many will be still around and how we get food. The new generation of farmers are getting fewer and I believe the love and passion for the business has been deteriorating for years. The up and coming farm kids have so many other great opportunities that farming will never offer. A sad thing is coming >>>>>
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Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: Milk prices
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04/08/18 10:02 AM
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Same as it's always been big operators/corporations run over family business. Lot of smaller farms here are doing the organic thing. But even that is getting bigger probably be people run someone else over.
Mac
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Re: Milk prices
[Re: AJE]
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04/08/18 10:07 AM
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Tough job, tough hours very time demanding not for everyone had a buddy that was a baker same there tough hours!
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Milk prices
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04/08/18 10:30 AM
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Back in 1978, I remember that Milk prices were $8.00 a Hundredweight. At the same time, a gallon of Whole Milk sold for $1.51 a Gallon. Back in 1949, my Grandparents bought an abandoned 160+ Acre Dairy Farm. The house and Barns were all built back in 1945. The place was almost brand new. For whatever reason, the original owner could not make a go of it. My Grandparents kept the place until 1967, when they decided to retire. In those years, Milk ranged from $2.90 to no more than $3.20 a Hundredweight. The first three years , they worked that farm with a Team of Work Horses. Then they got the M, Around 1962 or 63 they got the 806. All those years , they Milked anywhere from 35 to 40 head of Ayrshires.
Today, that Dairy Farm is no longer a Dairy Farm. New owners found out the water table is just 3 to 5 feet below the surface.. New owners turned it into one of the largest Beer Hops farms in WNY!
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Re: Milk prices
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04/08/18 12:33 PM
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The $.99/gallon milk does not reflect the actual cost of the milk. Big retailer will sell the milk at a loss just to get people in the door. Milk prices are kind of low right now but if you run/ran your farm well you should still make a living at it. A small farmer I know milks 40 and is able to support two families.
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don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same.
i can do it because i dont know that i cant.
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