[shelterguy]

“”””””Dairy Farming is not as popular with younger folks. “”

ESPECIALLY small dairy farms. They have been declining for a long time. It is a 24/7 job and you cannot miss a milking.

[Callan]

The hipsters want their fresh from the farm organic milk, but don’t want to do the 2x daily milking and CLEANING!

[Zhang Fei]

[ESPECIALLY small dairy farms. They have been declining for a long time. It is a 24/7 job and you cannot miss a milking.]

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Farming is a tough business. If you have the skills to run a farm successfully, those skills can be put to more lucrative ends with far less effort outside of the farming sector.

[myerson]

“ESPECIALLY small dairy farms. They have been declining for a long time. It is a 24/7 job and you cannot miss a milking.”

It’s 24/7/365.

[Oatka]

Dairy Farming is not as popular with younger folks.
ESPECIALLY small dairy farms. They have been declining for a long time. It is a 24/7 job and you cannot miss a milking.

Back in the '70s, I worked with an ex-Marine who was brought up on a dairy farm. He said that he got up at 4 a.m. every day all year long, except on his birthday when he got an extra hour in the sack. I asked him if he enjoyed the extra time and he said that he had his folks wake him up at the same time, then lay there for an hour, just repeating "I don't have to get up." That was his birthday present.

When WWII broke out, he enlisted in the Marines. "I couldn't believe my luck! They let us sleep until 5 a.m. every day. I got paid $40 a month and I all did was march around with a nine-pound rifle."

Then came Tarawa.