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Dairy in PA has been absolutely decimated. The only dairies in the northeast that are making is are organic/grass fed operations that sell premium products, or ones that have worked out some kind of agri-tainment angle like cheese making or ice cream.
Interesting. Why don’t the regular dairies make money?
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.
EPA changed some rules beginning under Obama too
Unless Trump revokes all environmental regulations the industry will be too expensive
Unless Trump revokes all environmental regulations the industry will be too expensive
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