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everyday. we still actually have a couple people in my neighborhood milking..
but I absolutely get what you're saying the American dairy farm is dying off rapidly.
used to around here about every other farm was a great day there may not be that large but it was there nowadays there's maybe four or five dairies in the county if that many
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Wish I had the grass for 20-30 replacement heifers.
They are a bargain right now... Never fails a guy gets caught that way. Osky
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Sexed semen is the demise of Holstein steers.
Also the replacement dairy heifer market.
The lack of male Holsteins perhaps has boosted the Beef market.
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Just before dark tonight. Will see them again in the morning. Neighbor and I have a couple in with our whiteface cattle. I spent a lot of time on my grandpa's dairy farm, we ate a lot of Holstein beef back then.
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All I know is I love good beef and I eat a good steak 3x a week. i really dont give a [bleep] if I will die sooner like they say. Its now how long you lived but how well you lived. I've said the same thing and will continue no matter what doctor's say.
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Been 20+ years, before all of the local dairies went out. I used to make reasonable money raising bottle calves, steers and heifers. Raise them up to several hundred pounds and then group them for sale. Castrated, dehorned, dewormed, fly tagged, implanted, broke to electric. Sold to "gentlemen farmers" and absentee farmers. They could turn them out in April. Let them graze all summer. Easy on fences. Easy to work. Rattle the feed bucket they came running. When October came around, rattle the feed bucket, and load them onto the trailer to the stock yards.
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We figured it out 35 years ago they aren’t worth feeding out. All bones and gut and not much meat but I see people feeding them out every year. People get lured into them because they are cheap or free. Truth right here ^^^^... then they feed em schit and charge high $$$... foxes all!... real battle to find decent meat anymore in Wi... i was born on a Holstein dairy... bags of bones, hate the fuggin things...
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The Angus understand that they are for killing a lot better than the Holsteins! The Angus never really trust you and when a Holstein gets loaded onto a slaughter house truck, they look at you like "What!!?? REALLY??!!" 
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