Running Arrow Bill
Well-known member
Please forgive me...this is something I've wondered about all my life
To preface my comments, I don't drink milk, but only use it in cooking.
Considering everything,
I supposed dairy people are like beef people, on the other hand, you like, enjoy, use the product and the lifestyle...
;-)
To preface my comments, I don't drink milk, but only use it in cooking.
Considering everything,
- 1. Dairies are very expensive to set up & run.
2. They are magnets for Goverment regulation.
3. The sanitation requirements are monsterous...probably more than restaurants.
4. The dairy cattle eat 3 to 4 times the hay and feed that beef cattle do.
5. Milk is a perishable product that must be frequently transported.
6. They are extremely labor intensive except for the totally automated computerized operations.
7. They are "nasty" places with lots of manure & effluent to get rid of.
8. They are more regulated as where you can have one than do beef catle.
9. The high quality alfalfa hay & silage is very expensive to buy.
10. With processed/pasteurized milk selling for $2.50 to $4.00 a gallon...where's the profit?
I supposed dairy people are like beef people, on the other hand, you like, enjoy, use the product and the lifestyle...
;-)