Re: Texas dairy explosion leaves at least 18,000 cattle dead

Posted by NY 986 on April 13, 2023 at 11:33:21 from (67.249.255.74):

In Reply to: Re: Texas dairy explosion leaves at least 18,000 cattle dead posted by BarnyardEngineering on April 13, 2023 at 09:32:32:

I think that there are people willing to do the work. They just did not need to be micro managed by bankers who had a one size
fits all mentality. 25 years ago or so the term 'under performing loan' resonated large with these same bankers. The profits that
these small dairies were turning were not enough for the bankers who envisioned less work and more pats on the back having larger
clients to serve. It really should not matter how much profit a farm turns as long as that farm makes all its payments. I agree
for the effort there should be enough to keep the house heated and the kids fed but in many operations mom's fat paycheck at the
school or hospital took care of that. The kids came to school no worse dressed than the rest of the kids there. If a couple wants
to have a relationship where Pa stays home on the farm and mom wants to work and cash will not be abundant then that is their
business. You also touched upon a very key aspect of running a farm when you talk about making enough to just keep the place up.
A lot of variability in terms of crop production from one part of NY to the next. Heck, around here productivity can change
greatly in a quarter mile or less. What you make in terms of crop production is key for a dairy or other type operation. It is
why the farms with poorer soil such as what is on the farm I have were the earliest to exit the dairy business. In a sense all
farmers are in competition and the farm that can produce several tons of corn silage per acre on average has a tremendous edge over
his less productive counter part. The last dairy on my road quit cows during the 1980's because feed output was inferior to other
parts of the county and state. Costs were often the same with some variability since the farm was fertilizing for 3/4 the tonnage
of the other farms but things such as seed and fuel was the same.

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