08/03/2020
🔉‼️⚠️Listen up....⚠️‼️🔉We aregoing to tell you the uncensored truth about dairy farming! 👇🏻
-The truth is dairy farming is hard. 💪🏻
-The truth is we're getting paid next to nothing for our milk. 🥛
-The truth is input costs continue to rise while income continues to fall. 💵
-The truth is farmers receive only 15 cents out of every dollar spent on food (in 1980, farmers received 31 cents); the rest goes for costs beyond the farm gate: wages, materials for production, processing, marketing, transportation and distribution. 💰
-The truth is that 97% of dairying is a multi-generational family business; with women making up 30% of the total number of US farm operators. 👨👩👧👦
-The truth is dairy farms across the US employ millions of people whose livelihoods and families incomes depend on our success; and we take that very seriously. 👨🌾🧑🏽🏭👨🏼💻👷🏾♂️
-The truth is we farm with the hope that our children will be able to one day follow in our footsteps, if they so choose. ❤️
-The truth is some groups lead you to believe we treat our animals poorly, when in reality great amounts of attention is paid to the quality of care that they receive.
-The truth is that no matter the “size” of the dairy farm, we care for our animals as if they are extensions of our families.
-The truth is we grieve at the loss of our cows. 😞
-The truth is we care for the land and strive to be respectful stewards of it. 🌾 ♻️
-The truth is farmers are committing su***de at alarming rates.
-The truth is farms are disappearing. 😔
-The truth is that NY has lost over 2,100 dairy farms since 2012; that's more than 20% of the total dairy farms in New York State!
-The truth is there are just over 35,000 dairy farms remaining in the US, this number dropped 8.8% in just the last year alone!
-The truth is less than 2% of the population feeds everyone else, yet many believe they know more about farming than a farmer, although they have never set foot on a farm or walked a day in our shoes.... 🥾
-The truth is Americans enjoy a food supply that is abundant, affordable and among the worlds safest. 💯
This is REAL dairy farming. There's lots of blood, sweat and tears that go into each and everyday. Dairy farming is what we do at Barbland and White Eagle Dairies, it's who we are and what we were put on this earth to do. We're not asking for sympathy, just for some understanding and trust, and....if you ever have questions about the dairy farming....ask a farmer....not Google.
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