Pennylvania dairy farmer decides to bottle his own milk rather than dump it. It sells out in hours.
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Not only the people supporting this farmer who refuses to give up. But this farmer is actually trying to fundraiser for another farm whose dairy barn burned down. These are amazing people. True Americans.
They gotta do the same with meat. I'll buy bulk direct from the farmers/ranchers. Just tell me where to send payment.
A smoked rack a day keeps the covid (and commies!) away
Dont let the name fool you, the killing floor isnt really a floor at all!
Kill the middle man
I like to buy my produce local from Farmers I actually know the names of, from land I can point to on a map, and I'd love to do the same with my meat.
Blog post with some resources for buying meat locally
That led me to exactly what I hoped for, tytytyty
http://www.garrisonvalleyfarms.com/
This in Middle TN, but do some searching, there are probably local farmer/butchers teaming up in your area to serve the community.
Hatcher Farms as well!
Some places do the veg straight from the farm thing.
Meat is harder because the meat has to go through so many tests and all that is done off the farm. In most cases anyway.
God damn. Could you imagine some warm chocolate chip cookies with this? Corona treats.
Wonderful story.
Giant Conglomerates HATE this! Learn this one weird trick local farmers are doing to tell Big Farm to suck a fat one!
Cut out the corporations and deal directly with the public . The way business Is done with these farmers is so compartmentalized one hand doesn't know what the other is doing .
Problem has always been capacity. Packaging plant have storage and pasteurization throughput far greater than local farms. We also have transport and other issues.
I'd say there is a gap in the market for a farmer's transportation collective. Where they just buss the milk into towns and directly dispense it to locals from the tap.
Theres an egg farm in PA doing that same. Farmer refused to destroy his 80K hens. Hes selling out of eggs regularly iirc.
#TheExpertsAreAlwaysWrong !!
https://youtu.be/FPD5q6DC43M << "you're wrong!"
OMG! Look at that! Just wasting food instead of processing it isn't profitable after all!
Here, here!
https://triblive.com/local/regional/fayette-westmoreland-residents-support-dairy-farmer-struggling-through-coronavirus-pandemic/
I don't want to assume too much, but stories like that rancher who was told the government would give him advice to "depopulate" make me hope that someone in that community can start solutions other than pleas to the net and hoping the government will do it. That's kinda the progressive response.
Ideally, we'd have more people finding a way to package, distribute, and retail themselves. If they need the government, it's to get a waiver on barbed wires of wrapped up red tape. Trump would probably sign off whatever.
Wasn't it government regulations that required this system to happen?
House of Raeford is doing the same thing for chicken.
No idea why farmers are just waste so much shit and killing animals just because the state told them to.
I expect some waste with so many food places closed. Tell state officials to go fuck.
We have an amazing local farm here that adapted to the shutdown, set up an online order/pickup from car system, and offers goods from other smaller farms. They are absolutely crushing it and have been for weeks. Seek out and support these folks all around the country!
I would drive up to 25 miles each way to buy this and I don't drink much milk , but my neighbors do.
Good for them. I read an article last week that food processors were ORDERED to kill approximately half a million, plus chickens in processing plants across the country. To just destroy viable food at the becking call of the Government is just plain insanity. They had issue the order to several area farms, on the killing of beef cattle in Texas as well. What is going on, with our government offices of agriculture demanding that food products be destroyed. Farmers from all areas of the country have been making video's of these situatiuons, and anyone can google, search results for verification results. This is truly a sign of tyranny, from within the people we allow to be in power.
How is Karen not calling the cops on these people for trying to exist in America?
The demand for products like milk, pork, chicken, eggs, ect. is not down.
What is happening is that we centralized the supply chain into a few big players. Those big players are shut down. So the demand for milk is down because the bottling and distribution network is down.
Perhaps after this is over we will shift more to a less centralized, more location/regional model.
I'm surprised the health department isn't rushing in to "inspect" his facilities and shut him down.
I used to live in upstate NY. There was this old farmer who had a vegetable, dairy and meat stand at his house.
MOST of the time it was unattended but what you did was drive up, see his prices, take what you wanted, put your cash in the cigar box, make change if needed and leave.
Several times a month my girl friend and I would go support him there...largely because we enjoyed our privilege of riding our horses around the edges of his property without being hassled. Milk. Eggs. Veggies.
Some county asshole learned about it -- shut it all down except for veggies.