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Doesn't New York make a lot of Yogurt? Do the farmers know they stopped working?


Dairy farmers are well aware of how hard they work. They lose about $0.10 for every dollar they make in New York.

Most of them are just trying to stay solvent until they can sell.


So is the sector dead or is it frantically losing money? I'm confused.

(I'd sort of guess it matches up with the broader US milk market and produces more milk than it did in 1992, with the average producer being larger)


In my county, more than half of the dairy farms that were operating in the early 90s are gone.

I worked on a farm as a teenager that was fairly large, and was in continuous operation since the Dutch colonial times. It was literally a going concern older than the state. It went out of business in 2005, unable to handle the burdens of rock bottom commodity prices, fuel costs, taxes and regulatory costs.



I don't understand this Dairy reference. where can I learn mo?


Here is an article from my local paper in rural Massachusetts that gives more info - http://www.recorder.com/Dairy-farmers-hurt-by-lowest-prices-...


I didn't realize there were federally set minimums. Good grief.




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