local farmer comitted suicide

I haul off FairOaks in Indianna.

35,000 cows. Automation running the 11 barns like you can't believe.

70 tankers a day .


My old business partners dad owned a dairy farm in Minnesota back in the 80s.

He had enough after 10 years sold the cows and burned down the farm so he never repeated that mistake.

 

He could have left the cows to my neighbor. Then I'd have a few more cows mooo-ing me to sleep at night when I'm home.

 

The Industrial Revolution changed the way we do things a great deal. We stopped doing things naturally and started becoming slaves to time. Before the revolution we went to work whenever we woke up, not when the alarm clock woke us up.

Kind of unrelated but I find it interesting, before the Revolution, we didn't sleep a full 8 hours. We would sleep some time when the sun went down, most people, and then we would wake up in the middle of the night. Usually people would eat, talk, have sex or the like. Guys would go outside and chop wood, women would hem/sow. We never went far from home at night, usually just within lantern light. We would be awake 1-3 hours, then we would go back to sleep. It was common/natural up until the Revolution. Then we would wake up after the sun has already been up and mosey on in to whatever job we were doing.

So if you wake up at a lot at night, just know you are only doing what we have been doing by normal routine for thousands of years. I cant remember the name but we had a name for our awake midnight hours we spent outside chopping wood with a bit of peace and quiet.

 

So sad. My Dad is a crop farmer and is really struggling. My Mom is always stressed about it and wants him to quit but he won’t. One of those deals..

 

This stuff is depressing.
When the Death of a Family Farm Leads to Suicide

 

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Did he have a wife and kids?

 

We don't drink milk like we used to in this country. Per captia consumption is down 75% from 1970.

 

It still makes for a gratifying beverage as long as you are not drinking it with FJ pizza.