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15. Same thing happened with the home ice delivery and whale lamp oil businesses

Sat Jun 9, 2018, 06:35 PM

Jun 2018

Dairy farms around where I live have been gone for decades. People adapted.

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America's Dairy Farms Are in Crisis and the Farm Bill Won't Help [View all] oberliner Jun 2018 OP

It is a shame oberliner Jun 2018 #6

Wait a minute.. Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #2

Seems like the solution is to sell oberliner Jun 2018 #4

Hope that the organic farm will rise to save the corporate farm...... a kennedy Jun 2018 #5

People aren't really drinking milk anymore oberliner Jun 2018 #7

Damn......I'm part of the problem then....... a kennedy Jun 2018 #8

Depends on how "rural" is my bet ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #25

We have too many diary farmers producing too much milk Kaleva Jun 2018 #9

Yes, and the demand keeps going down oberliner Jun 2018 #11

The solution is already happening Kaleva Jun 2018 #13

That's not really a "solution" per se, more of a consequence oberliner Jun 2018 #14

The "Whale Oil Myth" oberliner Jun 2018 #16

Kerosene and whale oil lamps are both obsolete for home lighting Kaleva Jun 2018 #17

Small dairy farms are thriving in Canada oberliner Jun 2018 #18

And small dairy goat farms are doing well in Oman. Kaleva Jun 2018 #19

Canada is more similar to the US than Oman oberliner Jun 2018 #21

Or eliminate factory farms oberliner Jun 2018 #22

So what happens to the US dairy industry? oberliner Jun 2018 #12

What's the percentage of working population involved? leftstreet Jun 2018 #24