Your dead right there, walking a cow(s) to feed her is whole lot cheaper
than starting a tractor to bring the feed to her ! You don't even have to
cart the manure away. Cheers AJS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie VanDalfsen" <bvandalf@direcway.com>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Graze-l] Export & dairy economics
> I think $40 oil will hurt us more than NZ. We use more fuel producing
> milk at the farm level than NZ cause we do more feed harvesting.
> Operating costs for US dairies will go up much higher than NZ.
> Shipping is cheaper transport than truck or rail by far. Cost of producing
> milk in Wisc plus processing then trucking to distant states may put Wisc.
> at a greater disadvantage when delivering cheese or butter to places like
Florida.
>
> Bernie
> Reeds, Mo.
>
> > Hey Vaughan,
> >
> > How about just answering my question? $40 per barrel oil is going to
have
> > an impact upon the cost of processing and shipping, especially shipping.
> >
> > You can complain about US tariffs, roughly 10% after you exceed our
> > generous quotas (and there's no quota nor tariffs on MPC) but for once
I'd
> > like you to admit USA is far more generous than the EU where there's 30%
> > tariffs. But that's not the question. My question was $40 per barrel
> > oil's impact upon NZ's dairy exporting, nothing else, not tarrifs, not
> > quotas, not DEIP, not dairy farm size, not etc.,,,,,,,just $40 oil.
> >
> > Dave G.
>
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