The Juggernaut Continues...

Show me 25 families that really want to start a 200 cow dairy, then show me 25 families that can afford to do so.
Then show me 25 families where the kids will want to stick around and continue farming when the folks have gone.

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And why is it the answer to all three scenarios is most probably the same?

don't know about wisc. but there are plenty in this area......especially with the money the local edc's are giving away plus tax abatements

So why aren't they happening?

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actually, they are.The west Texas/New mexico area is the fastest growing dairy region in the country. People from central Texas, as well as folks from all over the country, as well as some Dutch immigrants are moving in.Ther is a new cheese plant in Dalhart andpowdwer plant in N.M. with another cheese plant currently under construction.

In my neck of the woods, we have had 4 dairies start up in the past six months, all under 100 cows.

One is a young couple, and the other two are mid age couples beginning a second career. I have not met the 4th.

If we manage to reverse the trend from small homesteads to large absentee farms, then it will be the first time in the history of the human race that a civilization has done so.

The Chinese didn't do it. The Romans didn't either. The Egyptians changed civilizations with every new pharaoh so it's hard to say, but it doesn't look like they did it either.

Are we so advanced that we think "WE" can do it this time? We can solve an agricultural problem that has been with humanity since we first put seeds in the soil and waited for them to sprout? We can solve this, with less than 1% of our population actually involved in agriculture?

No, the trend will reverse itself the same way it did in all of the above examples. When the Mongol hordes invade, the Huns sack Rome, or the Mexicans cross the Rio Grande.