Driftless SW Wisconsin | Brown Cow - 2/29/2024 21:45 Inside of 15 years everybody's Ds will have been measured, and we'll start losing the dairies over 1,000 cows. Too far to haul manure out and feed in. With any luck that will result in a shortage of milk, and higher prices will open the door to more new, smaller dairies. Optimistic, but not crazy. Hi Chris, Around here we may be swimming upstream at the moment but there are smaller, ORGANIC and grazing dairies opening up. They're probably supplying Organic Valley. You probably know the one I'm thinking of, on the main road between us. With scattered small land parcels, the CAFOs are running out of land to spread manure. |
65% of the Nation’s Dairy Herd Lives On 1,000-Plus-Cow Operations
