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Another Dairy Cow Buyout

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Anonymous

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More Dairy Cows Coming to Beef Market

Later this year, an unspecified number of dairy cows will be hitting the beef market as Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) carries out another dairy herd retirement round.

The producer-funded program states that after reviewing a number of economic benchmarks including cull rates and cull cow prices, they believe that a herd retirement at this time will add to positive momentum and should result in speeding up the milk price recovery already in progress.

This is the tenth herd retirement since CWT began operations in the summer of 2003. The most recent was just this past fall. As was the case in last year’s retirement rounds, no target has been set for the volume of milk or the number of cows to be removed. They started accepting bids on Friday and will continue doing so through June 25th.
 

burnt

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What a wonderful system of supply management. Cost the taxpayers mega bucks and no more than a few days benefit to anyone in the industry . . .
 

Bullhauler

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burnt said:
What a wonderful system of supply management. Cost the taxpayers mega bucks and no more than a few days benefit to anyone in the industry . . .

Learn to read it is a PRODUCER FUNDED buyout.
 

burnt

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Bullhauler said:
burnt said:
What a wonderful system of supply management. Cost the taxpayers mega bucks and no more than a few days benefit to anyone in the industry . . .

Learn to read it is a PRODUCER FUNDED buyout.

I stand corrected. The outcome stands.
 

Kato

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Does any of this really make sense? Producer paid, or government paid, the result is the same.

In the name of free enterprise, dairies expand to the point that no one makes any money, then they get paid to kill off cows. Seems a big waste of good cows to me. :? To say nothing of the disruption it causes to the market for beef cattle. Every time a few hundred thousand cows get bought out, that is just that much more beef on the market, taking money directly out of the pockets of beef cattle producers.

Sorry guys, but it makes our system, socialist as you like to label it, look pretty good. The money is steady, the cow herds are consistent, and those in the business can stay in the business without a mental breakdown over the price of milk going in the ditch. Is the concept of an open market, which is many times just an illusion anyway, so important that dairy farmers need to ride the roller coaster of boom and bust, like that? I bet every time a buyout is needed, that more smaller operations drop out. Soon all that's left is the big boys. Again.
 

mrj

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Worse yet, there are those working to get even more government control over beef cattle via their so called "enforcement of PSA"!!!!

Just what Obama wants to get beef producers in the same boat with Dairy.

Total government control, no less, if his obvious goal for all US businesses.

mrj
 
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Anonymous

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mrj-- this buyout is totally industry controlled- and (except for Dairy subsidy money) involves NO taxpayer money- or NO government... :roll:
 

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