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> A study in South Dakota showed CRP acres to be the least beneficial
> to soil health. The best beneficial method of land management for
> soil health in the study, was managed rotational grazing.
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> But in order to revitalize US animal ag., you must have a business
> plan that bank loan officers determine will pay them back. A long-
> term investment in fencing, new or retrofit parlors, lanes, water
> systems, contracted sources of supplemental corn silage, hay and
> winter feed, etc. must all pencil out to the cash flow that makes
> lenders comfortable. That does not happen when you have the
> current US dairy pricing system, in which dairy imports drive down
> our milk prices which is exactly what the IDFA wants to happen.
> And the IDFA lobbyists in Washington DC work very hard to keep the
> system exactly so they can lower their raw material prices.
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> I am old enough to have witnessed the decimation of the WI dairy
> industry from its golden age of the 70's to its dismantling in the
> 80s. The results were devastating upon rural communities, rural
> businesses, societal benefits, school districts, tax base,
> processing infrastructure and much more. No, the pre-80s system
> wasn't perfect but we pretty much killed the patient when all that
> was needed were a few hang-nails adjusted. We went from a dairy
> surplus country to a dairy deficit country and have remained so
> since. We must stop stacking the deck against domestic dairy
> production. Land that once benefited from having dairy cattle
> manure on it, ended up converted to cash cropping, and while
> today's conservation tillage has corrected much of what went wrong,
> there still is no better soil conditioner than livestock manure.
> And there are many acres best used for grazing that end up cropped
> because of our cheap food policy reliance upon foreign imports.
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>
> Dave G.
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