STAYING SMALL, AND STAYING IN….
Challenging the notion that dairy farms need to be large to survive “Get big or get out!” seems to have been the mantra of the dairy industry over the last 20-30 years, certainly if a shrinking percentage in farms in the developed world with fewer than 200 dairy cows, and doubling of very large farms with more than 2000 cows since 2000 is anything to go by. Tight profit margins are continually being eroded by increasing input costs, fluctuating weather patterns and inflexible…