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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 23894"><p>yep, hurtin all over the country. not too many expansions up here in new york lately the bankers have finally begun to realize more cows may not be the answer every time. many have had to refinance and eat up equity just to stay in business.when the price started coming up a little last fall that helped and hopefully it will continue for a few more months. higher beef prices have helped also but on the other hand grain is thru the roof, everyone wants to charge fuel surcharges, and taxes haven't backed off so its kind of a trade-off. normally there are a lot of heifers going south and west from ny and pennsylvania but even those orders have slowed to a trickle lately. i wholeheartedly agree with craig the gov't has done nothing but screw up the dairy industry. by holding the prices down, allowing imports of unknown quality in, (gee that couldbe said about how many different ag commodities?) and by catering to the interests of the processing end of the industry they in a sense have made slaves out of all farmers not just dairy. now that we only represent .9% of the population we no longer are important enough to the political machine. when i was in college the economics prof said "how goes rural america so goes the country" maybe if the farms and small towns they support were better off the rest of the country would be also. boy does this sound depressing to all of you to? must be the day we had -2 this am and wind and i for one am getting real sick of winter. hey you guys out west send some heat this way PLEASE!!!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 23894"] yep, hurtin all over the country. not too many expansions up here in new york lately the bankers have finally begun to realize more cows may not be the answer every time. many have had to refinance and eat up equity just to stay in business.when the price started coming up a little last fall that helped and hopefully it will continue for a few more months. higher beef prices have helped also but on the other hand grain is thru the roof, everyone wants to charge fuel surcharges, and taxes haven't backed off so its kind of a trade-off. normally there are a lot of heifers going south and west from ny and pennsylvania but even those orders have slowed to a trickle lately. i wholeheartedly agree with craig the gov't has done nothing but screw up the dairy industry. by holding the prices down, allowing imports of unknown quality in, (gee that couldbe said about how many different ag commodities?) and by catering to the interests of the processing end of the industry they in a sense have made slaves out of all farmers not just dairy. now that we only represent .9% of the population we no longer are important enough to the political machine. when i was in college the economics prof said "how goes rural america so goes the country" maybe if the farms and small towns they support were better off the rest of the country would be also. boy does this sound depressing to all of you to? must be the day we had -2 this am and wind and i for one am getting real sick of winter. hey you guys out west send some heat this way PLEASE!!!!!! [/QUOTE]
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