burroughs85
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Which is more profitable in America? Beef or dairy?
What are the pros and cons of starting a business in each industry?
What are the pros and cons of starting a business in each industry?
I know lots of people who make money in dairy, but not everyone can do it.Dairy is not going to make you any money in the u.s. and you have way more inputs less sale options for products. Takes up way more of your time .
How two years of changes in dairy led to two major bankruptcies
Struggling with competition from milk alternatives, innovative startups and private label, this timeline shows how Borden and Dean Foods got here and what’s next for the industry.www.fooddive.comSmall farms vanish every day in America’s dairyland: ‘There ain’t no future in dairy’
Farming families are facing a choice: compete with high-production outfits, if they can, or abandon generations of dairy farmingwww.theguardian.com
It might be that factory farming has the dairy market cornered these days. Have milk cows have been "Walmartized"? Is milk chiefly a corporate big-box operation? The up-and-coming mom-and-pop may have a better chance to make a decent profit in beef. Specialty dairy and beef operations like Certified Organic seem to be the way to go for some small-scale farms these days. Shopping in supermarkets and seeing "Organic" on food labels really puts bigger numbers on the price tags. Speaking of Walmart, I see a lot of imported from Mexico/Brazil/Australia/New Zealand on ground beef labels there. Premium beef in high-priced meat markets might still be largely American grown. Is beef really grown cheaper on foreign soil? Dairy goats seem to be a thing of mom-and-pops too. $4 to $5 a quart for Meyenberg goat milk in Walmarts. If I were rich, but I'm not, I'd probably buy organic foods only. Chemicals put into my body gross me out.I know lots of people who make money in dairy, but not everyone can do it.
I suppose it depends what you call factory farming. The farms are getting larger, but they're still mostly family operations. Pastured Holstein cows are almost extinct outside of organic production. Organic isn't as great of a deal for farmers as it seems. Yes, you get a premium, but production is lower and feed costs higher.It might be that factory farming has the dairy market cornered these days. Have milk cows have been "Walmartized"? Is milk chiefly a corporate big-box operation. The mom-and-pop may have a better chance to make a decent profit in beef. Specialty dairy and beef operations like Certified Organic seem to be the way to go for some small-scale farms these days. Shopping in supermarkets and seeing "Organic" on food labels really puts bigger numbers on the price tags. Speaking of Walmart, I see a lot of imported from Mexico/Brazil/Australia/New Zealand on ground beef labels there. Premium beef in high-priced meat markets might still be largely American grown. Is beef really grown cheaper on foreign soil? Dairy goats seem to be a thing of mom-and-pops too. $4 to $5 a quart for Meyenberg goat milk in Walmarts. If I were rich, but I'm not, I'd probably buy organic foods only.
What chemicals do you think you are ingesting with food not labeled "organic"?It might be that factory farming has the dairy market cornered these days. Have milk cows have been "Walmartized"? Is milk chiefly a corporate big-box operation? The up-and-coming mom-and-pop may have a better chance to make a decent profit in beef. Specialty dairy and beef operations like Certified Organic seem to be the way to go for some small-scale farms these days. Shopping in supermarkets and seeing "Organic" on food labels really puts bigger numbers on the price tags. Speaking of Walmart, I see a lot of imported from Mexico/Brazil/Australia/New Zealand on ground beef labels there. Premium beef in high-priced meat markets might still be largely American grown. Is beef really grown cheaper on foreign soil? Dairy goats seem to be a thing of mom-and-pops too. $4 to $5 a quart for Meyenberg goat milk in Walmarts. If I were rich, but I'm not, I'd probably buy organic foods only. Chemicals put into my body gross me out.
What part of the country are you in?Which is more profitable in America? Beef or dairy?
What are the pros and cons of starting a business in each industry?
How much is raw milk going for where you are? Do you want a commercial dairy or beef operation or do you want to do farmers market/sell to locals stuff?Which is more profitable in America? Beef or dairy?
What are the pros and cons of starting a business in each industry?
chemical fertilizers, pesticides and also growth hormones and genetic modificationWhat chemicals do you think you are ingesting with food not labeled "organic"?
Corporate operations as in Tyson.I suppose it depends what you call factory farming. The farms are getting larger, but they're still mostly family operations. Pastured Holstein cows are almost extinct outside of organic production. Organic isn't as great of a deal for farmers as it seems. Yes, you get a premium, but production is lower and feed costs higher.
Raw milk? I don't know. A gallon of generic at my local SW Oklahoma Walmart is about $2.45 for skim milk and about $4.94/gal. for a "name brand" like Hiland in Oklahoma. Horizon Organic is a whopping $5.47 for a measly half gallon. I don't think farmers are getting rich off these fancy-label milks, some middleman must be skimming the cream off the deal somewhere. I don't see how humble Oklahomans can afford $5.00 on up for even a gallon-size thing of milk. I get the cheap generic stuff in the big gallon size. Breakfast cereal prices is also a rip-off too: generics vs name brands for a box full grain, cereal grasses, cattle food. Meyenberg goat milk is $4.54 for a measly quart.How much is raw milk going for where you are? Do you want a commercial dairy or beef operation or do you want to do farmers market/sell to locals stuff?
Each one of the 1,000s of chicken farms here are family owned. They have one customer, Peco. Peco is family owned too, for three generations.I suppose it depends what you call factory farming. The farms are getting larger, but they're still mostly family operations.