Pine City, MN | mikado - 1/14/2019 08:00
I’m interested in your take on this. From what you’ve said before it seemed you felt well positioned to ride this thing out. How are you hanging in? Can you say (or care to tell) what you feel gives you an advantage?
No ill feelings here, just genuinely interested in how someone can get thru this. I just see a lot of pain in my area but I’m very removed from what is actually going on in the dairy industry.
We are riding it out, but it sucks. 4+ years has been horrible. I’m not sure we are well positioned for this bad of a run, 400 cow dairy is a bad size. We lost using BST 18 months ago. That has taken income, we are still on the high end of production so that is big deal for cash flow. Lucky for our operation we have had fantastic crops 3 of those years, and we sell quite a bit of corn and soybeans. The future of dairy is big big dairys. I’m fine with that. The people who can manage that well, and do it have done very well for themselves. They deserve it because managing a dairy is bleeping hard.
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