Dave Skoloda -- Just before Christmas, an area
dairyman I’ve known for some time told me that he had sold his dairy
cows; the low milk prices and mounting costs of operations had made it
impossible for him to continue, he said with a rueful smile.His exit from milk production maybe didn’t show up as one of the 800 Wisconsin dairy farms that went out of business in 2019; his farm has other enterprises that will continue so he didn’t want me to identify him.
But his account of the sale of his herd put a face, and not a happy one, on the story of the painful condition of dairying in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the country because of the milk surplus and resulting low dairy prices...
Ken Notes: Great Read! I promise that one day soon we will wax nostalgic about Wisconsin`s dairy farms and it will be too late. If we must convert to mega farms, at the very least we should ask them to digest their manure and heat their effluent. We require communities to treat there waste and a CAFO is larger than most cities in the State. Even if the legislation will not pass it should be presented to stimulate the conversation. Finally we should put all factory farms on notice that if they pollute the penalties will be more than the, "Cost of doing business".
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