Posted by rrlund on January 16, 2008 at 07:10:21 from (216.46.213.27):
In Reply to: how much is left? posted by cat236 on January 16, 2008 at 02:34:42:
I don't know,I'm torn on this one. As for producing enough,I watch the big guys around here,am good friends with some of the largest. They get a real kick out of me by the way. They laugh and say that according to the universities,I shouldn't even exist. But I see the production that they get. I can't begin to match it. They have the economy of scale to produce more for less. I can give you a perfect example. There is a 2500 cow dairy just west of me,between here and Greenville shipping three and a half tanker loads of milk a day. When the dairy business was dying around here,my dad used to brag of the days when he would get a load of canned milk between here and Greenville. And that was off of probably 20 farms. Keep in mind,that was probably 100 cans averaging 72 pounds of milk. Figure there were probably 2 people working each of those farms with 20-30 tractors. Now,they grow all the feed for those 2500 cows with 3 tractors and three people. There might be 10 working at the dairy itself. Do the math on how much more milk is being produced per man hour,not to mention the feed being produced per acre and man hour. It's staggering. Now,take the land that they don't work,farmsteads with a few odd shaped acres around them,other small fields that are too small for their equipment. The economic DEPRESSION here in Michigan has caused those places to be farmed the way they used to be,a few head of livestock for personal use. I'm just not too worried about it. I'm seeing the cycle come around full circle.
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