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jodywy

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Commodity milk, Years ago there were over a dozen creamers', cheese factory dotting the two valleys here. When I was in high school there was over 400 dairy farms, a lot only milked seasonally from early spring to late fall and put their milk cans in the irrigating ditches and creeks next to the road for pick up. Then bulk tanks probably cut the number in half in one year. There are only about a dozen dairy farms left, most are larger then what was here but still around 100+ cows.
Talked with one the other day, he said milk was only bringing $9/cwt here and he was paying$1 freight.
There is one dairy here making $42 to $48/cwt. He bought a pasteurizer and homogenizer and bottles milk, (most in ½ gal. bottles that you pay a deposit on) Then plastic ½ gal and gal. Bottles. He sells it at his dairy and at Gardner's country store (Rulon's place). The Farmers Market in Jackson Hole comes down and hauls all it can
,up for its sale day. This young dairy farmer is paying his bills and feeding his family on 30 to 40 milk cows…
 
jodywy said:
Commodity milk, Years ago there were over a dozen creamers', cheese factory dotting the two valleys here. When I was in high school there was over 400 dairy farms, a lot only milked seasonally from early spring to late fall and put their milk cans in the irrigating ditches and creeks next to the road for pick up. Then bulk tanks probably cut the number in half in one year. There are only about a dozen dairy farms left, most are larger then what was here but still around 100+ cows.
Talked with one the other day, he said milk was only bringing $9/cwt here and he was paying$1 freight.
There is one dairy here making $42 to $48/cwt. He bought a pasteurizer and homogenizer and bottles milk, (most in ½ gal. bottles that you pay a deposit on) Then plastic ½ gal and gal. Bottles. He sells it at his dairy and at Gardner's country store (Rulon's place). The Farmers Market in Jackson Hole comes down and hauls all it can
,up for its sale day. This young dairy farmer is paying his bills and feeding his family on 30 to 40 milk cows…
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Wow. Truly amazing what a little unconventional thinking and creativity can do for ya.
 
Thats good price. Its lower here $7. Friday it was $1.25 block cheese......not good.
Prices are droping $1-3 a day not sure how smaller places are paying the bills.
 
MsSage said:
Thats good price. Its lower here $7. Friday it was $1.25 block cheese......not good.
Prices are droping $1-3 a day not sure how smaller places are paying the bills.
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I would bet the larger dairies will be hurting worse than the smaller I would much rather lose $5 a day on 30 cow's than $3 on a 1000.Springer market has dropped in 1/2 in one month.But milk is still $4 a gallon in the store.

Either way no matter the size of the Dairy there are going to be alot of them selling out.

In our house we go thru 2 gallon's of milk a day I've started buying flavored juice $1 a gallon Basically Koolaid but it cut's down on the milk consumption here which saves about $3 a day.It does'nt help the dairy farmer's but I'm sure were not the only household cutting corners.
 
Faster horses said:
Oh, but wait!!!!! There's a dairy buyout in the spending bill!!!!
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WRONG- FH--- You must not have read the post on PB where I answered yours...There is no dairy buyout in the Stimulus/Jobs Bill....The only dairy buyout is the ongoing one that has been going for years...NCBA put out wrong info...

But if these low prices stay for milk/dairy products most agree- there will be a big selloff of dairy cattle....
 
Faster horses said:
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...and double oops. I did miss that.
What did they do, take it out? I didn't think they knew anything
about Agriculture in the first place...
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According to the dairy folks- it was never in there- or asked for..
 
Might be time to purchase a dairy cow Denny,i've been thinking seriously about it and there's some good deals on dairy heifers at the local sales yard.Make a good nurse animal also,dual purpose.
 
Blkbuckaroo said:
Might be time to purchase a dairy cow Denny,i've been thinking seriously about it and there's some good deals on dairy heifers at the local sales yard.Make a good nurse animal also,dual purpose.
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My knuckle's hurt now the way it is of course I do have a dairy barn up at the other place I could use the automated equipment.
 

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