Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue
says the 2018 Farm Bill should help stem the flow of small dairy farms going
out of business but he says there’s an economy-of-scale issue in America.
Perdue says, “Big get bigger
and small go out and that’s kind of what we’ve seen here. It’s very difficult
on an economy of scale with the capital needs and all the environmental regulations
and everything else today to survive milking 40, 50, 60 or even a hundred cows.”
Perdue told reporters at
World Dairy Expo there’s no guarantee in America for small business profitability
or survival, “That depends on each and every farmer and dairy farmer.
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