minn gopher - 3/18/2018 05:13
prfarms - 3/18/2018 04:51
I disagree the business model that large dairys use only works with cheap foreign labor. If they paid a american standard of living price of milk would be up to where a small dairy would be viable and no one would stand behind someone else's cow when it could be their own. If what you say where true why didn't the megas exist before the huge influx of foreign labor ?????? The meat paking plants did exist and Americans wanted those jobs , they also paid more before the Vietnamese started flodding them after the war and lowering wages and working conditions, that was just the start then mexicans in th 80s and now middle eastern and african.
Cheap labor. There is no such thing. Maybe at one point there was. Not now. To much competition. Technology is a much much bigger reason it is way easier to run a large dairy now versus 25 years ago.
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