Dairy Farm Business

really thought provoking article written in such a way as a dairy farmer sitting in his office with all the previous performance record. thanks for sharing his experience

Dear J. McAllister
You are right, dairying has its ups and down.
To my opinion, the implementing production or financial practices that can influence the different directions of these UPS and DOWNS couldn't bring always great satisfaction in animal husbandry. It only can give people at the very most trouble.
I think, in spite of specifying a very high target that is not able to realize of them, reasonable goals should be determined is better and quite logical in real life. For these reason, the only thing we have to do is to find out the middle paths and walk on them.

Dear all.
May we share our dairy situation now with you regarding UPS and DOWNS :
- Milk price is controlled by Big milk plants: Vinamilk and Frieslandcampina (DutchLady).
- Feed material prices is always going up, never going down as all in hands of big Feed Mills.
Dairy farms operation are more tied up with milking labor .They are always asking more salary in milking time. But more milk is not 100% caused by labor skill, milk more per cow/day subject to feed-genetics -envirment... Not much relying on labor to take milk by milking machine every day. The small farmers  can milk their own cows every day. But for the company who invest in dairy farms we rely in the staff. What shall we do?