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| My day job used to be as an 'intake specialist' at a dairy plant.
Although it's not part of the job, I always took note as to what dairies the milk comes from.
One dairy has two big loads delivered every day. Just over 60,000 a load.
I see milk on CBOT/CME is anywhere from $18-19 a hundred-weight. That's how milk is priced, right? Minus whatever basis the plant takes away.
This equates to over $20,000 a day, gross.
Really? I know there is a lot of labor involved in a 1600 cow dairy, and feed as well, but holy crap, that's over $7,500,000 a year gross!
Yes, I do understand the difference between gross and actual profit, I just didn't realize there was that much money involved in dairy.
How much per hundred weight of milk in labor and feed could a person expect to pay?
A 5000 acre crop farm split half between corn and beans right now would gross somewhere around $3,000,000 right now, at 35 bushel beans and 130 bushel corn, and that's a big farm! | |
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Ignorant about dairies. Do some really take in this much money everyday?
