For many farmers, the price they've received for their milk hasn't covered their expenses. Some have lost thousands of dollars a month, and there’s not much relief in sight as the marketplace is flooded with the commodity they produce.
Wisconsin is on track to lose more dairy farms this year than in any year since at least 2003, according to state Agriculture Department figures for dairy producer licenses.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
U.S. President Donald Trump demanded concessions from the protected Canadian dairy industry and said on Twitter that Canada was hurting U.S. farmers with high tariffs. After Canada gave some ground, Trump claimed a big victory and said farmers would have more export options. But Canada opened less than 4 percent of its dairy market to U.S. farmers - a concession unlikely to make much of a dent in U.S. oversupply or improve the lot of farmers like Fritsche, producers on both sides of the border say.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
But .... the Art of the Deal! MAGA!
This makes me very sad to read.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
People do not drink as much milk and California became the #1 dairy state. Those little 500 to 600 acre Wisconsin dairy farms became economically non-viable a few decades ago and only can continue by increasingly being propped up by the government - just like mom-and-pop stores lost out to the big companies.
I wonder if bovine growth hormone is the cause of the oversupply of milk on the market. As I remember it was legalized because the big commercial dairy industry wanted it, not the individual family run dairy farmers.
What, you mean 4% of the Canadian milk market (servicing a population 10% your size) ISN'T going to save American dairy producers? Well I, for one, am shocked - it's not like Canada was screaming that from the ****ing mountaintops. Oh wait, we were.
Combine that with the fact that today's GM North American plant closure information shows more jobs lost in America than in Canada, and I'm guessing that if you don't have people wishing ol' Dump would have left NAFTA alone now, you will soon enough.
People do not drink as much milk and California became the #1 dairy state. Those little 500 to 600 acre Wisconsin dairy farms became economically non-viable a few decades ago and only can continue by increasingly being propped up by the government - just like mom-and-pop stores lost out to the big companies.
If you cant reduce your cost of producing a good, or reduce to the cost of selling your good to increase your revenues and you are becoming obsolete in the market place. Why should we as americans care? It only goes to tell me people don't want to buy your product or that they are buying someone else product for either being better quality or for being cheaper. As a consumer all I want is the highest quality for the cheapest price. If that means corporations go out of business or small mom and pop stores go out of business I could care less, so why should you?
Sorry to bother you OlNate, but who is the resident Calgarian around here? I wanted to congratulate them on winning the Grey Cup.
You should care because scope and scale are market drivers all their own. Ultimately, if you do not have healthy participants up and down the spectrum instead favoring greater scope and larger scale only because you see inherent cost advantages to you, you end up with cartels and monopolies including large industrial farming and dairy complexes controlling markets sometimes with bought off government acquiescence depending on how much lobbying and graft is going on. That can easily be suggested as a path in food and dairy toward higher chemical and antibiotic use which has direct health implications for you and your family. It should come as no surprise that an over exercised sense of deregulation often accompanies a propensity for big business over all other forms of business and now you should be seeing the problem in a little more depth.
This is also where a complete misunderstanding for how the Federal Government SHOULD work comes into play. If there is a propensity to destroy government agencies or to hobble them beyond all reason then the exact government agency that should be encouraging small farmers toward organics for example as a means to satisfy certain aspects of the market that by nature suggest a smaller going concern than an industrial farm or dairy complex then it is far more likely that smaller going concern just disappears of the face of the planet when in fact there was a market for its wares if it just reconfigured itself a bit and had it a helping hand in guiding it to its customer. A smallish farmer looking out at his fields now surrounded by behemoths on all sides of him is not likely to think past what looks like an immediate threat without some guidance. I don't see Anderson Consulting or BDO going out to help him either in spite of their "we are just here to help" advertising.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
.... If that means corporations go out of business or small mom and pop stores go out of business I could care less, so why should you?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...sin-barely-hanging-crisis-deepens/2112841002/
Seems that there is an unfortunate trend of fewer and fewer dairy farms, and that this trend has been remarkably independent of who's been president.
My question is how some of these farmers are going to exit the industry without losing everything.
People do not drink as much milk and California became the #1 dairy state. Those little 500 to 600 acre Wisconsin dairy farms became economically non-viable a few decades ago and only can continue by increasingly being propped up by the government - just like mom-and-pop stores lost out to the big companies.
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