Things are just plain ugly...... I got the sad news that one of my blog friends and their family are selling out just yesterday. And alas there is still no sign of improvement on the horizon. We are looking for change, but nobody seems to know where to find it.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
More Bad News on Dairy
Here is an article on farm loss in Pennsylvania.
Things are just plain ugly...... I got the sad news that one of my blog friends and their family are selling out just yesterday. And alas there is still no sign of improvement on the horizon. We are looking for change, but nobody seems to know where to find it.
Things are just plain ugly...... I got the sad news that one of my blog friends and their family are selling out just yesterday. And alas there is still no sign of improvement on the horizon. We are looking for change, but nobody seems to know where to find it.
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We sure can bail out Banks though can't we? :(
That completely sucks. I hate to see family tradition being lost.
What Lisa said. :(
I am strongly suspicious that these things are happening on purpose to the farmer, and to any independent person/business owner. It sure seems that the government wants to force everyone into the system as possible. :(
I've been wondering if maybe the loss of so much seafood might actually help farmers. I'd like to think that something positive could come from this.
Heartbreaking. Truly. Is there any hope on the horizon?
The 2010 food crisis is looming, I wonder when those in office finally get it....there is only just so much food and it only occurs on a yearly basis. Milk is different, but the food they eat isn't.
When are they going to understand that the 2010 Food Crisis is different...It is THE CRISIS!!! The one that makes all doomsday scenarios come true? Not just for the farmer...(gosh darn! Too bad for him...but oh, well, he can just do something else. We still have all the food we want from China...Brazil...not of the USA)
This crisis WILL hit everyone and will finally bring the global financial system to its knees and then what will they do...find another job?
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Lisa, I am shocked, although I suppose I shouldn't be, about how bad it is staying.
CTG, it is everywhere..a farmer I met through this blog is selling out now. I hate it.
Rebecca, I wonder if you are right. The rules are written and rigged to benefit the big players, no matter how much lip service they give to smaller farms
RRGA, thanks for visiting and taking time to comment! Sadly, I am afraid the sea food loss will be made up with imports....I feel so bad for the Gulf Coast people and animals
Cathy, I hate to say it but I don't think so...or not much anyhow. They keep promising higher prices in the not too distant future and then some company sells a carload of cheese...or pretends to sell one...on the CME, or finds some cheese in storage, or extra heifers "in the pipeline" and prices tank again. Both our girls have taken off farm jobs and it still is looking very bad.
Linda, I just don't know what they are thinking...When I read the editorial headline last week that USA farmers might not be able to feed the world any more, my response was a resounding BS. Get the regulatory nonsense under control and American farmers can do anything. The guy that thought up the hay/oil thing is just one example. Sadly bureaucrats who never saw a hay field and activists have all the power, while the folks who work and invest and go without to grow food are tossed away like trash. It is a shame and it will probably bite people later, but it will be too late for too many.
This is just so bad! I wish there was something being done...
Grocery shopping in the grocery store; fruit from Mexico; why can't we reduce our "global footprint" and produce AND sell regionally at least!???? Has to be major politics behind that idea.
PS, I have a letter from a great uncle who was a dairy farmer in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, UK in our family for over 500 years, telling his brother how the farm can no longer compete with big production, etc., and that they don't know what they will do. This was in the 19teens, almost a hundred years ago. Then it was due to the "industrial age", now what is it, the "politial age"!? Crazy and sorry. Hang in there.
Dani, there are several on-going lawsuits against some of the big cooperatives and food companies (which control 90% of the milk sold at least here in the North East and own all the bottling plants) but even if they succeed it will be too late for so many. I just heard of another unwilling auction that will take place next week...so sad..
Mountain Woman, first of all, thanks for visiting and for taking time to comment...that letter must be truly amazing. Thanks for your kind words about the situation in dairy farming and food production in general. When the foods we eat become the center of the storm of politics things get scary.
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