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I just sat and listened to a woman who says she and her husband own a 1000 head dairy farm in Wisconsin and how wonderful things have been under Trump. She admits she was a city girl before she married and I hope that is why she is so uninformed about farming in the state of Wisconsin. In 2019 over 800 farms went under in Wisconsin. Another 300 went out of business in just the first three months of 2020, the latest we have stats for farm closings. When I drive through the state I am amazed at all of the empty barns where milk cows used to stand. It seem the only farms left are the corporate owned farms that milk thousands of cows and pollute the air and the ground water. Many family farms are barely hanging on and recent increases in milk prices may help. The idea though that farming has prospered under Trump, not only in this state, but in others is a laugh. Many farms have been hurt by the stupid tariff war Trump started with every country in the world and which continues to hurt farmers even now. It seems that everything that Trump touches turned to sh*t>
I just sat and listened to a woman who says she and her husband own a 1000 head dairy farm in Wisconsin and how wonderful things have been under Trump. She admits she was a city girl before she married and I hope that is why she is so uninformed about farming in the state of Wisconsin. In 2019 over 800 farms went under in Wisconsin. Another 300 went out of business in just the first three months of 2020, the latest we have stats for farm closings. When I drive through the state I am amazed at all of the empty barns where milk cows used to stand. It seem the only farms left are the corporate owned farms that milk thousands of cows and pollute the air and the ground water. Many family farms are barely hanging on and recent increases in milk prices may help. The idea though that farming has prospered under Trump, not only in this state, but in others is a laugh. Many farms have been hurt by the stupid tariff war Trump started with every country in the world and which continues to hurt farmers even now. It seems that everything that Trump touches turned to sh*t>
Are you claiming that you have a more informed opinion about dairy farms than a dairy farmer has?I just sat and listened to a woman who says she and her husband own a 1000 head dairy farm in Wisconsin and how wonderful things have been under Trump. She admits she was a city girl before she married and I hope that is why she is so uninformed about farming in the state of Wisconsin. In 2019 over 800 farms went under in Wisconsin. Another 300 went out of business in just the first three months of 2020, the latest we have stats for farm closings. When I drive through the state I am amazed at all of the empty barns where milk cows used to stand. It seem the only farms left are the corporate owned farms that milk thousands of cows and pollute the air and the ground water. Many family farms are barely hanging on and recent increases in milk prices may help. The idea though that farming has prospered under Trump, not only in this state, but in others is a laugh. Many farms have been hurt by the stupid tariff war Trump started with every country in the world and which continues to hurt farmers even now. It seems that everything that Trump touches turned to sh*t>
You don't have to be a farmer in Wisconsin to know that farmers are hurting. :roll:
Dumb hick shouldn't speak. Telling folks how to think is better left to the highly educated.
Are you a farmer in Wisconsin?
Yes a lot of soybean farmers went out of business :doh
Are you claiming that you have a more informed opinion about dairy farms than a dairy farmer has?
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But, her husband is a farmer and you know more than she does. :lamo
A lot of dairy farmers have gone under, a lot of them. Most left are the huge corporation farms.
The world has over produced milk and the decline in dairy farms both nationally and in Wisconsin has been going on for 5 or 6 years. Perhaps you never noticed. Prices surged, people expanded their operations, prices began to decline as production overtook demand. Very few dairy farmers in my area rely on just milk sales. Some have day jobs/night jobs/weekend jobs. Others have diversified operations. Cows pay for the farms, but do not feed the families.
Are you a farmer in Wisconsin?
"One of the things about trade or even just doing business with people: you usually do it with people you like," Breunig said. "When we do these hard-line negative negotiations, it's just hard to go back and say, 'Yeah, we’re going to do business with you because we like to do business with you.' Those relationships are built over time and if you wreck them, it's not like they're going to be better tomorrow again."
THis has been the cycle for dairy farming for over forty years. Milk prices go down because of overproduction and farmers sell part of their herds for meat. After a while as herds are thinned milk production goes down and prices rise so farmers increase their herds to take advantage of the higher prices and as production goes up, prices again go down and the whole cycle starts again.
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