It was a good question posed to me by the wife of dairy farmer on the phone. There was anger and tears in her voice, as she talked about not paying vet bills and feed bills and electric bills and hoping that it didn't come to and end with a foreclosure.
With that question, "Is anybody going to do anything?", she transferred this to me, at this moment her representative and soon to be her advocate.
Now, it is upon us again. A conference call with economists -- the dreaded grey economists with numbers that don't bend to positive thinking and hope -- shows that it's about to get really hard for dairy farmers to survive as dairy farmers. The price of milk is dropping like a rock, production costs are down some, but not enough.
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