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Where will the Milk come from going forwards?
In my own very local area 3 dairy farms have gone or are about to sell the herd in the last 12 months, all three have been driven out by the low returns for the amount of work and/or the investment needed to carry on milking not being worthwhile for the work/ returns from milking cows.
One herd the owner would be around the 50 year old age with family coming on.
One farm is mostly going into stewardship/ low input sheep farming, another a mix of that and beef farming with some rented out and the other most of it is going under the plough for crops to feed a local AD plant...
Where is the milk/ beef calves going to come from if this rate of exodus from the industry carry's on??
Very sad to see such well run farms/ well looked after dairy herds being forced out of the industry after decades/ generations of milking cows.
In my own very local area 3 dairy farms have gone or are about to sell the herd in the last 12 months, all three have been driven out by the low returns for the amount of work and/or the investment needed to carry on milking not being worthwhile for the work/ returns from milking cows.
One herd the owner would be around the 50 year old age with family coming on.
One farm is mostly going into stewardship/ low input sheep farming, another a mix of that and beef farming with some rented out and the other most of it is going under the plough for crops to feed a local AD plant...
Where is the milk/ beef calves going to come from if this rate of exodus from the industry carry's on??
Very sad to see such well run farms/ well looked after dairy herds being forced out of the industry after decades/ generations of milking cows.