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Northwestern Minnesota | Their is life after milking cows, we did it for 20 years, I was willing to give my life for the farm ,it was my first wife as my wife alwase said, she was brought up on a dairy farm but was resentfull, we worked so hard with our mornings starting at 3:30 in the morning and in the summers we worked 20 hr days to get all the work done, we had 150 dairy cows, I rember working during haylage working 44 hrs in 2 days I was angry that i had to stop and sleep after a while it got to me i got Dibetes from stress and lack of sleep. we sold the cows in 1998 to a large dairy in okla , I will never forget the first night i felt like a trader .even the dog looked at me at milking time and you could see he was wondering why I wasnt going to the barn, he went to the barn and came back looking very sad. we raised heifers for a few years for a 1500 cow dairy, I sold the last of them The dairy farm had went under so i got out of it, I enjoy it very much selling heifers but we moved on to Raising hay for Dairys and Horse market also Goat market Life goes on I still miss the dairy But we have moved on. The dairy farms are under payed ,when you go to thestore and see water selling fr $22.00 pr hundred you know something is wrong | |
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The hard side of family farming
