Young couple shows there’s money in start-up grass dairy By Larry Tranel, Kieler, Wisconsin —There is no money in dairying. Dairying is too much work. It takes too much capital to start dairying. You can’t graze dairy cows profitably. You cannot outwinter dairy cattle and survive. You can’t crossbreed dairy cows. You can’t start dairying [...]
Archive | April, 2008
A self-sufficient, competitive no-grain dairy
Sixty-five cows, 100 acres and no input purchases required By Nathan Weaver, Canastota, New York — If you read Joel McNair’s column last month, you are expecting this article. I do not greatly disagree with the presentation on heavy supplemental feeding, and the numbers presented from the featured farms are impressive. I do not expect [...]
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