My 2 best friends are dairymen . One milks 450 , other milks 45 . We used to milk 40 or so ourselves. Larger place makes more efficient use of labor , land and machinery. During higher prices they make much more profit , build reserves that weather the tough times. Obviously individual operators vary but these are both basically debt free farms but the larger one always reaps higher returns . That being said the other farmer loves what he does at his level. He knows his cows , his dirt . It's not about balance sheets . They raise almost everything they need . Don't know how he got through the last two price drops but they always do. There aren't many small ones left . Eventually vertical integration will take the dairy biz .
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Today's Featured Article - Pop's Tractor of Gold - by Gary Teate. My father was a simple man but could repair just about anythin mechanical that was ever made. From the time I was a young boy growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, I would spend a considerable amount of time helping my father repair or rebuild equipment and engines, etc. on our 2 1/2 acre "spread". Pop always dreamed of having more acreage out in the country where he could retire and tinker as much as he wanted and often reminisced about his boyhood days on his grandfathers farm in Montecello,
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