There are about half as many dairy farms as there were in 2003 — a loss of more than 38,000 licensed operations.
Milk consumption is down 42% from what it was a half-century ago — from 247 pounds per person in 1975 to just 144 pounds today, and that has put a squeeze on dairy farms. There are about half as many dairy farms as there were in 2003, a loss of more than 38,000 licensed operations. A decline in sales forced Tom Murray to shut down milk production at his dairy farm in 2019."If we could make money, we'd still be doing it," Murray told CBS News' Michelle Miller.
"When we're competing against the Walmarts and the Lowes of this world, on this size scale, we just don't cut it. We just don't have that scale of efficiency." "We're trying to create a market to make our own cheese and create a destination here in the Finger Lakes. It just happens to go good with all the craft beverage facilities that are already here," said Murray. Young went big, increasing the number of cows at Spruce Haven Farms from 120 to 2,000.
Young also joined forces with his neighbors, including Kevin Ellis, a former investment banker-turned-milkman. Ellis heads Cayuga Milk Ingredients — a co-op of 30 farmers, including Young, who banded together 13 years ago to figure out their future. One of the solutions they found was dehydrating milk into powder to lessen its weight, which made it highly profitable.
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