Trucker protest ends, tickets issued

i used to haul milk and i never did understand some of the crazy stuff that happened with the logistics of it all. i will say this, i live in the dairy capital of GA which isn't much any more. they're dropping like flies, the small operations just can't do it any more. but, the large mega-dairies seem to making it alright. i guess the govt. is going to make sure that the small man doesn't get any kind of break but will bend over and help the mega corps.

 

We used to have a dozen dairys in this county or there abouts. A couple of them bottled, delivered and sold their own milk when I was a young kid. Most of the operations then were between 50 and 100 cows. As machinery costs grew and land values grew it became extremely tough. The last dairy farm in this county closed 10 years ago. The reason is, the bottling operations have become so centralized and it's a fur piece to haul milk from here to Winchester to put it in a jug to sell at the grocery store. When the milk hauler retired, nobody bought him out or if they did, they didn't want the farm in this county so there was no transportation to get the milk to market.

Pretty much any more you've got to have over 300 head, and I've heard over 500 to be able to make it. The problem is with that number of head to work, finding labor is almost impossible. It's hard to hire someone for a 7 day a week job that is hard work.

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