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["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Sound like the Blue ridge opperation knows about the natural law of (just 
enough)....    jerome
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>From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [grazersedge]Very small dairy....
>Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 9:10 AM
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>>Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:57:32 +0000
>>From: ojalafarm <ojala@nb.net>
>>Subject: [grazersedge] Re: building a barn
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>>Dear Benjamin,
>>One thing you may really want to consider is your market and where
>>you can sell your milk and how that will effect everything you do...
>>I'm still fascinated by Blue Ridge Mountain Dairy, in Lovettsville,
>>VA.  We heard about it at a Farmstead Processing Seminar.  He markets
>>all his milk as cheese in a Washington D.C. farmer's market. At the
>>time we heard him speak he sold all his cheese in the morning, before
>>the market was even officially open.  He had that great of a demand
>>for his cheese.  ---  He milks only 3 (Six now, I was told) cows.
>>His total investment, cows, equipment, barn, etc...was $60,000, he
>>grosses over $80,000 yearly.  He milks and grazes his cows on his
>>12.5 acres in the suburbs.  His barn is an "Amish shed ", like a lot
>>of people around here keep their lawn mowers in.  He cools his milk
>>by pouring it over ice packs and turns it into cheese daily.  He
>>milks in a two stall flat parlor with a bucket milker. Somehow he has
>>done things very differently than most of us farmers and is making a
>>living doing it!  So why do I make less money milking 20 times as
>>many cows!?
>>
>>Dave Rice
>>Blair County PA
>>  In grazersedge@y..., dairyfarmns4me@a... wrote:
>> > If I worked for a dairy farmer for about 4 or 5 years and was able
>>to build
>> > up a herd with a small line of equipment and decided to stay here
>>in Texas,
>> > but was unable to find a prefered size farm for sale or rent that I
>>liked,
>> > could I use my cows to get a loan to purhcase an area of land that
>>had a few
>> > barns and a house on it along with getting a loan to build a dairy
>>barn? I
>> > hear that swing parlors can be built for cheap, but a flat barn may
>>be
>> > cheaper than a swing parlor. I'm not sure. If anyone would have any
>> > information or suggestions, please feel free to say so. Thanks for
>>your time.
>> >                                                Take care, Benjamin
>>Meyer
>> >
>> >
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> Mark P. Ludwig
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