OK- explain this one to me, as most of the area farms where I have open permission to hunt, and shoot vermin, year around are working dairy farms-- at best, a farm of some acreage needs a minumum market price of $17.50/hundred wt. for their milk to "break even" annually. But when the retail price of a gallon of milk goes from $4.95/ to $5.25, does the dairy farmer see his check increase from the milk Co-Op to which he sells his raw pastuerized milk--???? IMO, the farmer gets "screwed, jewed and tattoed by the market.."" Many family farms that I have known have sold out their milking stock-mostly Holsteins, and are doing beef only now-a-days. How can a bunch of fat cats on the Chicago Board of Trade regulate the market, they get rich, the farmer gets screwed.. RWTF
