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Since 1970, more than 90 perfect of all U.S. dairy farms have closed due
to low milk prices and industry restructuring. Recently, a corporate
decision by Walmart led to the shutdown of a three-generation family-run
dairy farm in Kentucky. We followed the Coombs family as they’re forced
to sell off the last of their dairy cows and try to make sense of
what’s ahead.
That is saddening, and it pisses me off. We need these small to medium dairies and farms to protect our food supply. You need to diversify food production so if disease or insect or weather can't hit every one. The powers that be want this, to weaponize food and keep it out of peoples hand when they finally decide to initiate their plan.
ReplyDeleteMe too. My grandfather had a large dairy farm around Manquin, Virginia and supplied most of the milk for Richmond during WWI. Here's search (6+ hits)if you are interested as to what they are used for today.(The large farm was broken up into smaller farms giving his sons one a piece. The generation before me operated the farms successfully.
DeleteHere's an intersting tidbit:
*(The quote took place as Lee was leaving his first cousin's farm, Pampatike, Manquin, Virginia after a visit. He was responding to a question as to whether he should use whites or blacks as laborers. The farm has been in the Townsend family for over 100 years, and is currently owned by my Cousin Frankie. BT)
http://www.pampatike.org/
I have always observed that wherever you find the Negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving."
to fellow Virginian Col. Thomas H. Carter, June, 1865