There are very few good dairy mills left these days as they are being run out of business by the larger ones which have substanded conditions. I know because I am an animal activist and I visit these mills all the time and see the filthy conditions and the poor state the cows are in. At the end of the line all the milk tankers pump the milk into huge vats where it is mixed with milk from various dairy farms so even if milk from one farm is clean it will be spoiled because of a contaminated milk from another farm. Are your parents still in posession of their dairy farm? If not how long ago did they sell?
Every single farm's milk is sampled and tested every single time the milk is picked up. It is tested for bacteria, somatic cells, water content, antibiotics, butter fat and so on. If a farm tests below standard, that farm pays for the entire tanker of ruined milk. As you can imagine, that's incredibly expensive. Also, farmers are paid a wholesale price by weight for the milk (unless of course they bottle their own, but most don't), and paid bonuses for higher butterfat. There's GREAT incentive for the farmer to provide high quality milk, as you can see. Unsellable milk is very costly, not just from lost income but because you still have to feed the cow(s) that are not producing, which is incredibly expensive as well. The milk companies who buy wholesale milk don't care if a sample tests badly, because they're still going to get paid for the ruined milk, and the farmer desperately doesn't wnt to ruin the milk tanker, so there's no incentive for either party to try to get contaminated milk through. It's exactly the opposite.
In the US, over 90% of farms are what is considered 'small family farms'.
I'm not sure what you mean by poor condition...cows are supposed to produce milk for the farm, if they are not fed and cared for properly that defeats the whole purpose as they won't be producing (or producing well).
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There are very few good dairy mills left these days as they are being run out of business by the larger ones which have substanded conditions. I know because I am an animal activist and I visit these mills all the time and see the filthy conditions and the poor state the cows are in. At the end of the line all the milk tankers pump the milk into huge vats where it is mixed with milk from various dairy farms so even if milk from one farm is clean it will be spoiled because of a contaminated milk from another farm. Are your parents still in posession of their dairy farm? If not how long ago did they sell?
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No, they sold the dairy cows about 9 years ago.
Every single farm's milk is sampled and tested every single time the milk is picked up. It is tested for bacteria, somatic cells, water content, antibiotics, butter fat and so on. If a farm tests below standard, that farm pays for the entire tanker of ruined milk. As you can imagine, that's incredibly expensive. Also, farmers are paid a wholesale price by weight for the milk (unless of course they bottle their own, but most don't), and paid bonuses for higher butterfat. There's GREAT incentive for the farmer to provide high quality milk, as you can see. Unsellable milk is very costly, not just from lost income but because you still have to feed the cow(s) that are not producing, which is incredibly expensive as well. The milk companies who buy wholesale milk don't care if a sample tests badly, because they're still going to get paid for the ruined milk, and the farmer desperately doesn't wnt to ruin the milk tanker, so there's no incentive for either party to try to get contaminated milk through. It's exactly the opposite.
In the US, over 90% of farms are what is considered 'small family farms'.
I'm not sure what you mean by poor condition...cows are supposed to produce milk for the farm, if they are not fed and cared for properly that defeats the whole purpose as they won't be producing (or producing well).