[Servant of the 9]

Some dairymen are being offered up to $550,000 an acre - a strip they may have purchased for $3,000 some 40 or 50 years ago.

Yeah, it sure is a shame to see the traditional american farmer treated that way {/Sarcasm}

So9

[Rytwyng]

And the yuppie scum who are driving them out, probably would go into an absolute SNIT if dairy products were suddenly no longer on the store shelves.

Hypocrites.

[JohnnyZ]

Some dairymen are being offered up to $550,000 an acre

Great, take the money and run.

Of course my favorite stories are about the poor oppressed homeowners whose taxes go up a lot when their property triples in value. Either sell at a massive profit or shut up and quit complaining.

[martin_fierro]

Happy cows really do come from California.

[davisfh]

Still some wide-open space here in Mississippi. The
land is getting a bit pricey though, but compared to
CA is small potatoes. There are some problems with
taking care of cattle here that probably don't exist
in CA. Protecting animals from insects that cause
problems for them comes to mind.

[jiggyboy]

Shut up and sell already.

He thinks it's only farmers who see their way of life being eliminated, and I'm getting pretty GD tired of their complaining. There are fewer software engineers in Silicon Valley this year than there were in 2000, how's that, Syp? Those jobs ain't coming back before anybody old enough to have had them in the first place is retired.

[sangoo]

Why not just take the money, invest it in something conservative and never have to work again? Makes sense to me.

[BlazingArizona]

I'm old enough to remember the little Dutch dairy colony of Artesia, on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, in the early Sixties. They eventually sold out to developers for a huge whomping fortune and moved out to Chino where land was cheap. Now they're selling out for an even bigger fortune. By now they could buy Amsterdam and retire.

[AZRepublican]

This is a dirty shame. Developers buy up land and then use property rights rherotic to destroy whole communities and enviornments. I don't like it one bit or the dumbass pols who site back and allow it.

[ikka]

Because their farm is in a future flood zone, the family only expects to receive about $19 million for their land.
But a few states away in Texas, the Vander Dussens could purchase land for $1,700 an acre and build a dairy for half the cost. The total price would be around $12 million.

Boo hoo, my heart bleeds to death for these guys. My suggestion, go where you are wanted.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I think this is a real shame. These farms have been family owned for MANY YEARS...if some of you can't grasp that concept....

[southernnorthcarolina]

What a bunch of, well, bovine effluvia this article is.

I am so tired of hearing farmers, beneficiaries of price supports, tariff protection, federal and state subsidies, and all manner of tax breaks, whine when their property appreciates in value.

[calcowgirl]

Because their farm is in a future flood zone, the family only expects to receive about $19 million for their land.

And will we see new bonds and taxpayer dollars being used to build and shore up levees so the developers can reap the real profits?

[HereInTheHeartland]

" Some dairymen are being offered up to $550,000 an acre -"

That pegs the BS meter. Myabe one farmer had a couple of acres go for that somewhere. Take a 0 away and you could get much closer.

[Rytwyng]

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