Posted by steven-id on November 14, 2018 at 18:47:53 from (216.201.68.11):
In Reply to: Farmer retirements posted by sourgum on November 14, 2018 at 07:46:24:
I can see where the farmers kids want to do something besides farm. Some of them want a steady paycheck and some of them don't want to be married to the cows. As everyone(at least those on this site) would know dairy is a 365 days a year job for someone. Sometimes it is the farmer and sometimes it is his help. It has been a long time since I worked for my neighbor on his dairy but, I know that at that time(about 40 years ago) that times were probably better than now.
While he had the usual costs involved like the cows, feed,equipment, vet bills, wages for helpers etc. He had all the responsibilities and risks that went with the dairy and he would make $x per pound of milk. I don't remember what he got per pound at that time but he had 2 brother-inlaws that owned the local grocery store. The milk truck would bring so many gallons of milk to the store and stock the shelves. If it was reaching it's expiration date they would take it back to the creamery. So the BILs had no real risk except if the cooler didn't work but they made more per gallon of milk than the dairy farmer did. It just doesn't seem quite right to me but he enjoyed his dairy and that is really what counted.
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