spin_dry Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/06/got-milk-yes-actually-too-much-519775 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinfarmer Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 How many here grew up on a dairy farm, or had a family member that milked? How many still have someone in their family that milks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Kivalo Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 Milk is my favorite! Infact I'm drinking a big ass glass of it right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted November 8, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 6 hours ago, Kivalo said: Milk is my favorite! Infact I'm drinking a big ass glass of it right now. IT was a fav for Americans for yrs. But as America gets more Asian the demand is down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Kivalo Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 7 minutes ago, steve from amherst said: IT was a fav for Americans for yrs. But as America gets more Asian the demand is down. My family leases some farm land to a dairy farmer and they have us over every so often for the freshest milk in existence! It's fan-fucking-tastic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 It's kinda cool to see the milk trucks driving around picking up milk at the local farms here in VT. All we saw in NH were tourists, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member EvilBird Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 My family with 3 kids goes thru a Gallon a day everyday. I pretty much let my 4 year old Son drink as much milk as he wants. Even tho the Doctors will tell you otherwise. Yet my Kid is twice the size of his soy boy peers. 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 10 hours ago, racinfarmer said: How many here grew up on a dairy farm, or had a family member that milked? How many still have someone in their family that milks? We never owned a an actual dairy farm, but do own land that is farmed by neighbor farmer. I milked for a fellow farmer and many of my friends grew up on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted November 8, 2021 Author Share Posted November 8, 2021 Never been a milk drinker. Cheese and ice cream though. Ben and Jerry’s rocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irv Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 hour ago, EvilBird said: My family with 3 kids goes thru a Gallon a day everyday. I pretty much let my 4 year old Son drink as much milk as he wants. Even tho the Doctors will tell you otherwise. Yet my Kid is twice the size of his soy boy peers. 😂 Same. I've loved milk as long as I can remember and to this day, I drink almost as much as I did when I was a kid. 1% for me, however. I had bad acne when I was in my teens so it was determined the homogenized milk I was drinking by the gallon was most likely contributing to that. I switched to 1% and my acne practically disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member EvilBird Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 1 minute ago, irv said: Same. I've loved milk as long as I can remember and to this day, I drink almost as much as I did when I was a kid. 1% for me, however. I had bad acne when I was in my teens so it was determined the homogenized milk I was drinking by the gallon was most likely contributing to that. I switched to 1% and my acne practically disappeared. No kidding huh, never heard that before.. I know once I started drinking a lot more water instead of soda as a teen my skin got much clearer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 I have milk with dinner just about every night. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irv Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, EvilBird said: No kidding huh, never heard that before.. I know once I started drinking a lot more water instead of soda as a teen my skin got much clearer. Yep, I seen a skin specialist about it and he said drinking homogenized milk is like eating food as it is so thick/rich. He told me to cut back on the amount and switch to 1% and he was right. I was never a real pop, junk food consumer so the homogenized milk was the culprit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted November 8, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 35 minutes ago, EvilBird said: No kidding huh, never heard that before.. I know once I started drinking a lot more water instead of soda as a teen my skin got much clearer. Never drank soda as a kid. Was a luxury that wasn't in the budget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member 800renegaderider Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 We go through 5-6 gallons a week family of 4. It’s all we drink besides water. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member EvilBird Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 Just now, steve from amherst said: Never drank soda as a kid. Was a luxury that wasn't in the budget My Mom wouldn't really buy soda for us as kids either. But once I started making money mowing lawns and shit id buy it myself lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallCool 1 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 I grew up on a dairy farm Central Ontario still have a brother and a nephew milking cows. Overproduction of milk is a problem everywhere in the world need to milk more cows to pay the bills the only problem is is already too much milk on the market it's a vicious circle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01mxz800 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Kivalo said: My family leases some farm land to a dairy farmer and they have us over every so often for the freshest milk in existence! It's fan-fucking-tastic! Nothing like a nice cold glass of ice cold milk fresh from the bulk tank 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 23 minutes ago, EvilBird said: My Mom wouldn't really buy soda for us as kids either. But once I started making money mowing lawns and shit id buy it myself lol. My grandfather managed the local Pepsi bottling plant when I was a kid. They also bottled Varsity Birch Beer. My favorite growing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member poopooforme Posted November 8, 2021 Gold Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 Good article. I sell farm machinery. So I have a bit of an understanding. If you read that article the farmer by the name of Tony Hammell lives/farms just a couple miles east of my store. Good customer of mine. The big dairy he speaks of is De-Su Holsteins. Even De-Su is not a mega dairy compared to some of the 10k dairies you find out west and down south. Our ground is to hilly to support mega dairies but De-Su is sure trying. There was a speaker at a dairy convention a couple years ago that was talking about expansion. He basically said if a couple more 10k cow dairies come online there will be no where for the little dairy to take there milk to market. Thats why you are starting to see farmers doing something like this. https://www.gerdesfreshfarm.com/ Another good customer of mine. Just getting started but they are going to be a big hit with all these "organic" hippy people.... People wanting to know where their food comes from is a good thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted November 8, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, racinfarmer said: How many here grew up on a dairy farm, or had a family member that milked? How many still have someone in their family that milks? My father did. From the time I can remember he hated milk because as poor farmers that's all they had to drink besides water. This was heavy, room temp milk. Would drive me nuts how little he would put in his cereal. I love cold 1%. Don't eat much cereal but still drink probably 1/2 gallon a week. Edited November 8, 2021 by Highmark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted November 8, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 One of the largest family dairy operation in my area just stopped all production not long ago. I had heard they had spent a lot on the technology side of milking that just didn't pay off in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 47 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said: Nothing like a nice cold glass of ice cold milk fresh from the bulk tank I remember one of my first "chores" was to clean the bulk tank at my neighbors. I was around 5. My dad drove milk truck for a local cheese company for 5 years and he said that the as a driver he was required to clean it.....but it was all automatic at the farms where he picked up just had to basically push a button once he loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted November 8, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 When "dairy" smell gets in something its hard to get it out. House we lived in prior to our current we bought from a couple than ran a dairy transport company. They both drove trucks and picked up milk at local farms 7 days a week. There was a closet coming in from the garage where they put their coats in. We repainted it 3 times and still never got the dairy smell out of it in the 6 years we lived there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted November 8, 2021 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted November 8, 2021 So I imagine some of you farm folk must eat some dairy beef? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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