Turning To The Marketplace For Solutions
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
It seems like its something that’s been taking shape for more than a couple of years with little indication that there will be any significant improvements coming to the hardships facing dairy producers in the near term. This account by the California Farm Bureau publication, “Ag Alert” highlights the serious nature of the circumstances that dairy producers are dealing with. Those hardships have been part of Nevada’s dairy reality for every bit as long, if not longer.
Trying to figure out what to do about the problem has been a front-burner consideration with little progress. Nevada dairy producers in the Fallon area have been seeking to address their situation through recruiting efforts to bring a cheese processor to locate in the community, providing another option for marketing milk than the reliance on California-based processing facilities.
Response has also taken the form of herd reductions, selling off fairly large numbers of dairy cows.
Against this backdrop of serious financial difficulty and very real stress of families who are involved in dairy production, coping with the challenges of these hard times, I couldn’t help but be impressed with this post by a dairy producer from Wisconsin, sharing his thoughts on where attention needed to turn for resolution to the problem. Bill Bruins may not be part of the mainstream of current thought in this country – given that there seems to be such an overwhelming fixation on more government being the solution most pursued – but, you can’t help but consider his thinking as being an appropriate strategy to build on.
It seems like its something that’s been taking shape for more than a couple of years with little indication that there will be any significant improvements coming to the hardships facing dairy producers in the near term. This account by the California Farm Bureau publication, “Ag Alert” highlights the serious nature of the circumstances that dairy producers are dealing with. Those hardships have been part of Nevada’s dairy reality for every bit as long, if not longer.
Trying to figure out what to do about the problem has been a front-burner consideration with little progress. Nevada dairy producers in the Fallon area have been seeking to address their situation through recruiting efforts to bring a cheese processor to locate in the community, providing another option for marketing milk than the reliance on California-based processing facilities.
Response has also taken the form of herd reductions, selling off fairly large numbers of dairy cows.
Against this backdrop of serious financial difficulty and very real stress of families who are involved in dairy production, coping with the challenges of these hard times, I couldn’t help but be impressed with this post by a dairy producer from Wisconsin, sharing his thoughts on where attention needed to turn for resolution to the problem. Bill Bruins may not be part of the mainstream of current thought in this country – given that there seems to be such an overwhelming fixation on more government being the solution most pursued – but, you can’t help but consider his thinking as being an appropriate strategy to build on.
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