Reporter: “But are they going to survive as they have in the past as small operations, or are they going to have to go big or get out?”

I think more dairy farmers will be able to survive with this 2018 Farm Bill and its risk mitigation measures.” That just increases the supply of milk which makes the supply-demand balance even exacerbated in that way. They’ve gone to someone else’s herd for the most part. What we’ve seen is the number of farmers go out but the dairy cows haven’t reduced that much. It is very difficult with economy of scale and capital needs and all of the environmental regulations and everything else today, to survive milking 40, 50, 60 or even 100 cows, and that’s what we’ve seen.

The big get bigger, and the small will go out, and that is what we’ve seen here.

What we see, obviously, is economy of scale having happened in America. Perdue: “No, I think the 2018 farm bill will stem the flow of that. Do you think that loss of small farms in inevitable, or do you think there is something that can stem the flow of that?” Reporter: “We’ve seen a lot of loss of small dairy farms. A full audio recording of the media session is available courtesy of Brownfield.) Read the full context of the questions and responses below to determine for yourself: (Content from Kaitlyn Riley’s transcript. This demonstrated that the pieces that were pulled out of context were never intended to say what the reporter spun them to say. Related: Holte: Agriculture must stand unitedĪfter watching this misleading news story draw a divide in the agriculture community, Kaitlyn Riley, a Wisconsin reporter, transcribed the audio recording into text and highlighted the pieces of the Secretary’s comments that were taken out of context. Unfortunately, over the past several years, my trust has eroded and recently it was completely washed away after the widespread circulation of a news story that wildly misrepresented the Secretary’s comments at World Dairy Expo. When I sit down to watch the news or read the newspaper, I have traditionally trusted that I am getting the straight scoop. There has been some anger and confusion in farm country regarding Secretary Perdue’s comments, during World Dairy Expo.įarmers and agriculturists are trusting people by nature.

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