Let me tell you and everybody else that I'm not posting this link to start anything or to be adversarial. It's just that when I came across it,you were the first one I thought of. It's a gray day,my dairy herd has been gone for fifteen years and one month. When I read the article on a day like this,despite having sold them in my own time and with no regrets,I had a pretty heavy heart when I read it. If it was happening today with my beef cows the way it's happening with these guys selling their dairy herds today,yes,I'd be taking it just as hard.
The article doesn't mention it until a ways in,but the person who wrote it was speaking of his organic herd. I'm posting it to tell you that in a way,you're right about the mega operations,but sadly,they're taking the organic market too and putting the small guys out who thought they'd found a safe place in ag. I'm as sorry as you are for what the "economy of scale" has done for your niche too.
It's an interesting,although sad read.
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The article doesn't mention it until a ways in,but the person who wrote it was speaking of his organic herd. I'm posting it to tell you that in a way,you're right about the mega operations,but sadly,they're taking the organic market too and putting the small guys out who thought they'd found a safe place in ag. I'm as sorry as you are for what the "economy of scale" has done for your niche too.
It's an interesting,although sad read.
Link