Posted 3/1/2024 03:17 (#10646256 - in reply to #10645590) Subject: RE: 65% of the Nation’s Dairy Herd Lives On 1,000-Plus-Cow Operations
100 miles north of the NYC crapper
I can remember 45 small dairy farms in our township. Down to 3 today all under 100 cows. We milked 120 at our peak in the 1990s. I left the business to take to become the town highway supt in 2016 mainly to earn a pension plan and other benefits. Brother kept at it downsizing then the barn burned in 18. He rebuilt a 36 cow barn and buys his feed. Sells his milk to a neighbor who has built a successful bottling operation that makes a variety of other products besides bottling milk. He gets a premium price but I’m not privy to how much.
Side note: I’ve seen 2 1000 cow operations come and go out in the neighborhood. Our neighboring town is down to one dairy farm and soon to lose that one.
There are a couple BTO crop operations that lease much of the land that hasn’t been built on or turned into some useless distillery or organic farm. Plenty of horse farms around too.
65% of the Nation’s Dairy Herd Lives On 1,000-Plus-Cow Operations
