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Post by TOM/MN on Dec 1, 2011 15:25:03 GMT -5
Just an interesting fact straight from the mouth of Ron Collette. Headknocker for the northern division of Dairy Farmers of America. DFA has about 10,000 farms they pick up milk from. 103 of those farms produce 49% of the milk. Scary numbers.
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Post by dman on Dec 1, 2011 21:31:57 GMT -5
Yep, that's why at the end of the month I'll no longer be shipping milk to DFA. And the fact I found someplace that will pay me more.
BTW Tom where you from. I know of a Tom over by Sleepy Eye that ships to DFA. Meet him at a DFA YC Conference about 8 years ago.
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Post by glowplug on Dec 1, 2011 21:54:03 GMT -5
Why wouldn't you know him, dman. Ain't there only two dairyfarms left in MN?
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Post by dman on Dec 1, 2011 22:55:59 GMT -5
No actually there are 4!!! We are after all a state that doesn't matter in dairy.....nor have we ever mattered in dairy!!!
Does Sconny have good cheese?
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Post by TOM/MN on Dec 2, 2011 5:13:38 GMT -5
Yep, that's why at the end of the month I'll no longer be shipping milk to DFA. And the fact I found someplace that will pay me more. BTW Tom where you from. I know of a Tom over by Sleepy Eye that ships to DFA. Meet him at a DFA YC Conference about 8 years ago. Hey dman, I am from Sleepy Eye but not the Tom you met. He has brown swiss and i have holsteins. Yup i have the same feeling about DFA. I`m just have a small herd and i don`t even count as far as DFA is concerned. Just turned 50 and am wondering why I am still milking. As long as i can keep part time help I guess I will keep plugging along. |
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Post by dman on Dec 2, 2011 7:59:20 GMT -5
Yep, that's why at the end of the month I'll no longer be shipping milk to DFA. And the fact I found someplace that will pay me more. BTW Tom where you from. I know of a Tom over by Sleepy Eye that ships to DFA. Meet him at a DFA YC Conference about 8 years ago. Hey dman, I am from Sleepy Eye but not the Tom you met. He has brown swiss and i have holsteins. Yup i have the same feeling about DFA. I`m just have a small herd and i don`t even count as far as DFA is concerned. Just turned 50 and am wondering why I am still milking. As long as i can keep part time help I guess I will keep plugging along. If I remember right he and his brother had a big article in the Dairy Star about there sawdust bedded barn too? Yeah, it seems as the years go on DFA cares less and less about the smaller herds. I understand that to some extent, but milk is milk. First District is down in this area(SE MN) now, and really stirring the pot with DFA, AMPI and LOL. Even some of the other smaller coops round here too. And it is both big herds and small herds they want. And NOW DFA and AMPI are trying to make huge deals and offers to keep people. Goes back to what I said before, if you want more milk....PAY FOR IT! |
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Post by glowplug on Dec 2, 2011 9:34:55 GMT -5
Sooooooooo DFA now controls half the nation's milk production.
And if my expired Hoard's past info is dated, please correct me......but roughly 85% of the nations milk is marketed through a coop.
Sooooooo, why isn't DFA (and other coops) using Capper Volstad to set price? Why did DFA climb in bed with New Zealand's Fonterra, getting more MPC imported in here to keep our farmgate prices low for 22 months in 2002-03?
Crooked sum' beeoitches.
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Post by dman on Dec 2, 2011 13:19:27 GMT -5
glowplug, DFA doesn't control 50% of the natiions milk, it is more like 35% of the nations milk. What was said is that DFA has 10,000 members, and of those members, 103 of them produce 49% of DFA's milk. Now you work those numbers out and 103 farms then produce 17% of the NATION'S milk!! That truly is scary.
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Post by glowplug on Dec 2, 2011 17:50:47 GMT -5
Thanks for setting the figures straight, dman. Anyhoooo, there's enough milk under coop control that Capper Volstad could be used.
Won't happen, though.
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