SE Manitoba | NY ed - 1/13/2019 08:54
Think it's going to go south long before that. 3000/3000 cow dairies would produce more milk than is currently being produced. 17 % of milk is being exported. 85% of dairies produce 15% of the milk supply. It is like watching a slow motion train wreck, it's not only the dairies that are disappearing but the local small business support. Was talking to a local tractor dealership owner the other day and his comment was that without lawnmower sales he would be forced to close, they now do more business in lawnmowers than agricultural equipment sales and he doesn't see this turning around.
Interesting - - -- especially that last sentence.
Here in the Canadian prairies there seem to be very very few single location dealerships left.
Plenty of the dealerships are now investor owned but then the companies making this stuff really aren't into service anymore either.
I believe that farm equipment is going the way of the auto industry.
Buy a car - - - its designed to fall apart at x distance - - - - no matter what you want to do - - -- unless of course you're prepared to spend huge dollars on dropping in major components and new body parts.
And why would you - - - - its cheaper to get the next one.
New farm equipment is largely unrepairable because too much of it is set up using cheap electronics and this equipment is now, as well, designed to die.
This is just to make more money for the company making the stuff.
Doesn't matter how good you are at repairing - - --- you just can't get close enough to the software so that you could even repair things even if you would make your own pcbs (printed circuit boards).
It looks like regulations are pushing for 2 sq mile chunks of concrete located in these places and that's where your 'food' is going to be produced.
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Insightful article on Dairy Farming and consolidation
