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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 627400" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Diry farmers aren;t in the same category as crop or beef farmers. The product has to be marketed quickly, dumping it or holding it for a better price isn;t feasible. Currently cost of production is not being kept up with in what they are getting paid. I believe it is something like the price for class I is the same as it was in 2003. I'm not a big fan of subsidies or government support for producers, but with a time sensitive product and one that is pretty much considered a necessity by the consumer, something has to be done to allow the dairyman to stay in business. Personally I'm against the multi-thousand head dairys, but it's a reality and will remain so. Most of the dairys in this area milk less then a 100 head. A couple of the really bg ones milk 300 head or so. The small producer has just as much right to be in the business as the larger produer. These are mostly family farms that have been milking for many years, not the megadairys that have popped up in the past 10 or 15 years or so.</p><p>I'll just slip my soap box back in the corner now</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 627400, member: 34"] Diry farmers aren;t in the same category as crop or beef farmers. The product has to be marketed quickly, dumping it or holding it for a better price isn;t feasible. Currently cost of production is not being kept up with in what they are getting paid. I believe it is something like the price for class I is the same as it was in 2003. I'm not a big fan of subsidies or government support for producers, but with a time sensitive product and one that is pretty much considered a necessity by the consumer, something has to be done to allow the dairyman to stay in business. Personally I'm against the multi-thousand head dairys, but it's a reality and will remain so. Most of the dairys in this area milk less then a 100 head. A couple of the really bg ones milk 300 head or so. The small producer has just as much right to be in the business as the larger produer. These are mostly family farms that have been milking for many years, not the megadairys that have popped up in the past 10 or 15 years or so. I'll just slip my soap box back in the corner now [/QUOTE]
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