1 month ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
Hard to say exactly but the price of milk is influenced by federal regulation. Costs of fertilizer, seed, diesel have gone up and milk has not done the same. Adjusted for inflation milk price has gone down for decades. PA also does not have the huge industrial dairies you find in the midwest. It was a lot of family farms with between 150-400 head most of the time. Smaller farms can't tolerate smaller margins like the industrial farms. Competition from chicken houses and beef meant many farms swapped to those models rather than sticking with dairy.
Environmental regulations are fine, they just need to enact them rationally and subsidize smaller farms. Otherwise everything just goes to shit. If it weren't for planning and environmental laws New Yorkers would have bought and paved iver the entire eastern half of the state by now
Unless Trump revokes all environmental regulations the industry will be too expensive
The EPA has priced them out anyway, at least in my area