>Dave G.
>Perhaps we have the beginning of what you ask for in the fledgling CWT
program coupled with our soft US dollar. At least it is a true >self
help program.
>Dave, the US has been a milk deficit country since the 1980's so the
CWT program never did make any sense. Why decrease the US >herd when
the US herd wasn't producing up to US domestic dairy product needs? To
make room for more foreign imports?
AH but Dave a threat to reduce supply any time the price drops below a
certain level ( if that level is realistic) could keep the players in
the CBT from dropping that price quite to the level you are concerned
about.
>The days of permitting new large confinement dairies east of the
Mississippi soon will be over but there will be plenty of grass
>available east of the Mississippi for smaller profitable grass dairies.
Maybe or maybe not. Right there in IN you have mega-dairies which are
apparently doing quite well.
Yes but the permitting process here in Indiana will be following the
examples of other states east of the Mississippi soon.
I can't see investing money in a swing parlor, getting it paid for and
achieving a respectable rate of ROI by the time I'd reach age 65. The
processors are going to find some way to drive the current high prices
down, or spraWLmart will take control of the supermarket sector and do
their typical screw the supplier act.
You sound defeated before you start. That's not the way we built this
country nor how it will stay strong. Sears & Roebuck took over the
marketing industry 50 years ago but things changed and they are weak
today. As the world has developed we are work more in a World economy We
develop what we produce competitively and progress from there. New
Zealand has worked their dairy system to compete well there and they
added the level of marketing to even market for the world. Why are they
selling US dry products to other countries?
Dave Forgey
