[AT] Dairy farming. Dying industry?

[joehardy at epix.net]

Richard:  All this focus on large dairy operations depends heavly on trucking their product over long distances. My gripe is should we be using all this unnecessary energy to truck these products across the country? Example, here in Northeasten PA all the dairy farmers are about all gone & those still in existance find it necessary to have their milk processed in New Jersey. The processed milk is then trucked back here to be sold! I still feel there will come a time,during another serious energy crisis, that we will have to depend again on "locals" to supply our food needs. It always seems that most things always go full circle. My $0.02  joe hardisky   dallas, PA> 
> From: "rasmith4 at juno.com" <rasmith4 at juno.com>
> Date: 2007/03/04 Sun AM 07:07:39 EST
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: Re: [AT] Dairy farming. Dying industry?
> 
> Danny is right.  The times, they are achanging.  Things are different
> all over.  Forty years ago a guy could make a decent living from 30
> milk cows.  Today with 100 he is lucky to break even.
> 
> Look at automobile makers.  We have long since gone by the folks that
> would make 100 or less cars a year.  And look at auto dealers, long
> gone is the guy who sells 30 a year.  Ever see "King of Cars" on TV?
> Not my favorite show, but piecing together some of the comments made I
> figured he sells about 1500 cars a month.  I wouldn't have thought that
> there were that many people in Las Vegas.
> 
> As we get older, we need to keep focused on the future and not the
> past.  We can't move forward looking backwards.
> 
> Richard
> In Central NY
> 
> 
> -- Danny Tabor <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I agree with you,George. Some of the smaller
> dairies maybe hurting. Some of the more successful
> small dairies around here are creating there own
> markets. Processing all or some of their product and
> selling it themselves as milk, cheese, ice cream or
> what have you.
>     Danny Tabor 
>     
> 
> 
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