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It's sad to see family farms keep getting ground down into the dust like this. It was already happening of course, but it's only accelerated based on the trade
by NotSammyHagar 7y ago
It's sad to see family farms keep getting ground down into the dust like this. It was already happening of course, but it's only accelerated based on the trade war. There is too much milk production for our domestic market, prices aren't high enough to support the number of farmers we have, and apparently lots of the profit or price differential between what farmers are paid and what we pay in the store is captured by middle men.
We need a better social safety network to help people when this happens to them. I'm sure there are no words to describe how devastating it is to lose your life's work to bankruptcy. It happened to my great grandfather in the depression, I think he never recovered.