bigbull338":7inws8y4 said:
then thats when you get rid of the freeloaders.yes its tough right now in the dairy business.but it really hasnt changed since the 50s.milk price is going down an everything else goes up.
I wouldn't know what it was like in the 50's I wasn't even born yet, all I can judge it on is the past 15 years, and to me this is the worst time ever, as several of my other farming friends have also said, that have been milking for 30 plus years.
I do find it hard to believe that things were as expensive as they are now in the 50's. From what I have heard dairying was a profitable business in the early years.
We have had lows and highs, but ever since the ethanol craze, it has kept the grain prices up there, I can't even remember the last time grain was $7-8 a cwt?
Last year hay was high, diesel high, and fertilizer too, but milk prices were high too so it evened out. Now everything related to making the milk is also high, and those kinds of things aren't ever going to decrease in price. Maybe the grain will come down some, but all the supplies, equipment costs are not going to decrease.
One of our friends bought the exact same disc mower we bought last year, only he paid $2500 more, and he thinks they raised the price because they could, they knew someone would need it, and want it, so they did it. Can't fall back on steel prices being high anymore, because that market has tanked, so thats what I mean, some items are just going to keep going up regardless, things we have no control over.
GMN