No, dairy farming isn't dying

Too often, in mainstream media agricultural topics are covered by someone who can’t pick out the north end of a southbound cow. When a real farmer speaks, people love to listen, and that creates ripple effect, for better or for worse, on the entire agriculture community.he current dairy economy is very challenging right now. Any producer can tell you that. But when an article pops up in The Washington Post with the grim title “Dairy farming is dying” written by a former grass-based organic Wisconsin dairy farmer, it adds a special flavor of insult to injury.This is exactly the kind of talk the anti-agriculture animal-rights activist crowd loves to hear. Frothing at the mouth, they blow up every comment section scoffing and jeering. After all, if a bonafide farmer says things are so dire and it’s all the fault of a corrupt industry, who dares to argue against him? I have no doubt Mr. Goodman loved his farm and his cows, the pain is evident in his penmanship. I just wish he showed some love to the industry that made those things possible. The dire words echo a somewhat relatable frustrated cry, but they are laced with far more emotion than hard fact and critical thinking. Dairy is certainly changing, in some ways painfully. But dying? Hardly. As long as there are folks with a cow passion, there will be dairy.