I am getting plumb sick of so-called experts at farm magazines pandering to anti-farming special interest groups. These folks, merrily making a living selling stuff to farmers, while deriding everything they do, should have learned from world political history that appeasement NEVER works. If the dairy industry caves to animals rights or environmental groups on any of their trumped up issues, they just ratchet up their want list. However, the editor of Dairy Herd Management, Thomas Quaife, constantly suggests that we comply with ridiculous demands rather than going on doing what we do best-producing inexpensive, healthy food while taking expert care of the land.

He suggested in this month's issue that we spend our dairy check off dollars, intended for promotion of dairy products, to fund a dairy farm air emissions study to the tune of six million dollars. This is despite the admitted fact that the industry already funded such a study and the results were ignored completely by special interest groups. Surprise, surprise! Since when did those sort of folks pay any attention to science when it doesn't reflect their chosen point of view? Quaife mention that the farmer funded study might produce, "definitive research that shuts up the anti-dairy activitists once and for all." That has never happened and is NOT going to happen this time either, so we might as well save our money for the dairy promotion for which it was intended.