California Agriculture in trouble?

[Farmer Kitty]

so does that mean someone is making double off of what you guys make. cause they pay you and when they stripe the milk of what vaule it has,and sale that for something else, shouldn,t you guys get a piece of that!

If only. We are at the mercy of the markets and don't get to set our price. There are things we can do to get a better price, contracting and such but, that's it.

 

[wynedot55]

an everytime the milk price goes up where you can breath.all the stuff a farmer uses doubles.because they want all of our profits.

 

[m.holloway]

well maybe one day we'll go back to when what money you made you got to keep. lol i know that won't happen in this life time. so i quess we'll all have to hang in there with what we have . if we don't hang ourself first. because of how hard it is getting. it getting pretty sad, we had someone here in florida, kill the whole family because they both lost their job and did'nt know how to cope so they killed each other and their 3 kids!!!!!!

 

[wynedot55]

the sad thing is stuff like that will keep getting worse.because people panic.they dont realize that they can start over.

 

[m.holloway]

they don't know how to start over, that's where the world has gone crazy. don't take this to heart, but once i heard that god was taken out of so many books,schools, and ect. we where going to be in trouble. just my 2 cents.

 

[wynedot55]

your right about that.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Amen

 

[m.holloway]

see, i knew that this group is great!

 

[wynedot55]

yes we sure are.an some of us are hardcore cattlemen.

 

[kstaven]

so does that mean someone is making double off of what you guys make. cause they pay you and when they stripe the milk of what vaule it has,and sale that for something else, shouldn,t you guys get a piece of that!

If only. We are at the mercy of the markets and don't get to set our price. There are things we can do to get a better price, contracting and such but, that's it.

The whole quota system put the dairy farmers in chains decades ago.

We gambled a few years back when we moved and went renegade (cowshare). I thank higher powers everyday that I listened then and did it. Must be all that rum runner blood from my family tree.

We have another local dairy that takes every drop they produce now and makes cheese, yogurt, butter etc and sells it. They gambled everything going that route and that is the only reason they are still running.

At 8.90/ hundred weight (74 cents/gallon) dairies can't keep the doors open in California, considering the lack of grass and the cost of feed, power, etc.

I see a lot of very hungry people in our future.