1800 or 180, still have to find that many families willing to do the work. That was a problem in the 1970s, let alone today.
"Probably a decent living" is not good enough. There are no guarantees but there is a long history of hard times for small dairies. People just don't like working hard and still being poor.
Government subsidies as much as you like to complain about them are a pittance when you're small. For argument's sake let's say you get $10 a cow annually. What's $1000 going to do? $180,000 on the other hand is enough for a family to live pretty high on the hog.
Having lived through it, there weren't too many years when the farm didn't at least take care of itself with some careful management and deferred upgrades. It was the whole food clothing shelter medicine transportation thing that put you in the red.
...and I don't want to hear "organic." Organic wasn't a thing back then. Besides we WERE organic. We couldn't afford to pump our cows full of antibiotics and lather the fields with chemicals and fertilizers like the public perceives farmers do.
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