Dairy is a major ag industry here, now bigger than the famous potatoes. We have over 500k milk cows within 75 miles of here. Dairies with 2k to 5k cows are common and there are a few with 10k. Chobani's biggest plant is here and there are cheese factories scattered all over the place. This summer producers were getting record high prices for milk but their cost of production has gone nuts. Hay is WAY up and you know what the situation is with diesel.
Retail milk can be found around $2.75/gal and butter for under $3/lb.
Idaho got it's start in big dairying because of CA's idiotic environmental laws. They drove the big dairies out and they moved here.
