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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 220679" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I honestly dont know how any of the dairy people stay in business. I have a few friends who are still milking. Where I live, every farm used to milk. On a stretch of the local pavement that is 11 miles long, there isnt a single milk barn being used now, and there are 20 of them standing vacant. Dad started milking about 1955 and we milked up to 100 cows until we quit in 1985. The main difference now and 20 years ago is the grain price. In the early 80"s, the grain was over 15 dollars per hundred, along with the 8-9 dollar milk. There was a huge mistake made by the government in the mid-80's. They had the whole herd buyout and bought the herds and slaughtered them and paid the people in the buyout. As it turned out, the cows only brought 15-18 cents per pound on the buyout, so the money paid for selling out was less than what the cows could have been sold for if they had been sold on the open market. They lowered production temporarily, but it came right back up. What should have happened, was that a quota system be put in place. Each producer own the quota for the amount of milk they produced, minus the 10 percent over production. Then, no more milk could be produced unless a person bought the quota from someone else. This way, the production would have been in line with the demand. But, the prices would have been good and the government wouldnt have been able to break the farmers every few years to keep them from having any power over their own lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 220679, member: 1150"] I honestly dont know how any of the dairy people stay in business. I have a few friends who are still milking. Where I live, every farm used to milk. On a stretch of the local pavement that is 11 miles long, there isnt a single milk barn being used now, and there are 20 of them standing vacant. Dad started milking about 1955 and we milked up to 100 cows until we quit in 1985. The main difference now and 20 years ago is the grain price. In the early 80"s, the grain was over 15 dollars per hundred, along with the 8-9 dollar milk. There was a huge mistake made by the government in the mid-80's. They had the whole herd buyout and bought the herds and slaughtered them and paid the people in the buyout. As it turned out, the cows only brought 15-18 cents per pound on the buyout, so the money paid for selling out was less than what the cows could have been sold for if they had been sold on the open market. They lowered production temporarily, but it came right back up. What should have happened, was that a quota system be put in place. Each producer own the quota for the amount of milk they produced, minus the 10 percent over production. Then, no more milk could be produced unless a person bought the quota from someone else. This way, the production would have been in line with the demand. But, the prices would have been good and the government wouldnt have been able to break the farmers every few years to keep them from having any power over their own lives. [/QUOTE]
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