Posted by NY 986 on December 21, 2018 at 14:37:43 from (184.53.48.58):
In Reply to: Re: Traditonal Farmer posted by Commercial Farmer on December 21, 2018 at 14:19:45:
The very big dairies might but even they will have challenges. The last processing plant within the NYC limits closed its doors a few years ago and that is a harbinger of things to come in terms of demand. Dairy was viable in NY State because of the demand from cities such as NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, and down the line but consumption habits have definitely shifted away from mass consumption of fluid milk. The truth is we only need a fraction of the production when glimpsing 10, 20, or more years down the road. A lot of the soil is marginal in a lot of locations so grain corn-soybeans is not a viable substitute for forage crops of which also helps with water driven soil erosion prevention. The last time I was deep in the Southern Tier of NY there were well over a dozen dairies that either got sold or closed but the buildings are either not used and in decline or they have been bulldozed versus being viable farms when I was going to college back in the 1980's and driving past them. Would not surprise me the next time I am down by Hornell, NY that a few of the 3-500 cow dairies are now sitting idle. Further, that the ground and buildings on some are sitting unused.
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