Re: Dairy Farming

Posted by Lloyd on January 19, 2001 at 07:16:53 from (66.43.204.92):

In Reply to: Dairy Farming posted by Rick on January 18, 2001 at 19:25:13:

This is how I did it. I went to school and got a degree in Chemistry. Worked as an analytical chemist for ten years and saved every penny I could. I bought a farm when prices were at rock bottom in 1986. Got a beat up line of machinery in 1989 and a 30 cows. I like to say that we grabbed the bull by the horns, he just dragged us backward a few years before we got him stopped.

I grew up on a dairy farm and even that did not prepare me for what I was getting into. My dad once told me that farming is one occupation where you can do everything right and still fail. It's true.

Dairy farmers arround here are dropping like flies. Five big ones arround here went broke within the last year and caused the local coop to fail. The coop lost $500,000 on each of those five farms.

They say it only takes two things to be a farmer, guts and money. But if you have the guts, you'll borrow the money.

The wisconsin house of representatives was debating what they could do to help out the dairy farmers in their state. One of the speakers said that the most effective thing would be to allow dairy farmers to have more than one wife. That way they could spread their losses over the incomes those wives would have working in town.

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