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<blockquote data-quote="CattleMan1920" data-source="post: 1547667" data-attributes="member: 37967"><p>This sounds like the county where our beef operation is located. The whole dairy community here is blown to pieces. Amish bought nearly everything in sight, tried their hand at dairy, and now they are struggling. Families that were deeply rooted in dairies, who also raised tobacco, now commute long distances to Cincinnati or Lexington, and so on to find work. They are good people who worked very hard, but things didn't work out. What I don't understand, and I've talked with several former dairy operators about this, why not sell all the dairy cows and take that money reinvest in a high quality commercial or registered herd and use all the skills acquired in dairy to build a huge beef herd? Most dairy people can AI, they know animal nutrition, they can produce good hay, all the things needed in a beef operation, but they seem like deer in headlights when I suggest they switch over to beef. They seem tired, and would rather go work for UPS or Amazon fulfillment centers for low pay, but after a while doing that they yearn to be back on the farm. I've heard a few people around here that swear that dairy will return and it will be better than ever, I don't think time is on their side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleMan1920, post: 1547667, member: 37967"] This sounds like the county where our beef operation is located. The whole dairy community here is blown to pieces. Amish bought nearly everything in sight, tried their hand at dairy, and now they are struggling. Families that were deeply rooted in dairies, who also raised tobacco, now commute long distances to Cincinnati or Lexington, and so on to find work. They are good people who worked very hard, but things didn’t work out. What I don’t understand, and I’ve talked with several former dairy operators about this, why not sell all the dairy cows and take that money reinvest in a high quality commercial or registered herd and use all the skills acquired in dairy to build a huge beef herd? Most dairy people can AI, they know animal nutrition, they can produce good hay, all the things needed in a beef operation, but they seem like deer in headlights when I suggest they switch over to beef. They seem tired, and would rather go work for UPS or Amazon fulfillment centers for low pay, but after a while doing that they yearn to be back on the farm. I’ve heard a few people around here that swear that dairy will return and it will be better than ever, I don’t think time is on their side. [/QUOTE]
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