BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. - He’s been up since 2:30 in the morning, and Ned
Ensor will work until dark running his small dairy farm in Baltimore
County.
After all, he has no choice.
"It's getting
harder and harder to compete,” said Ensor, “The price of milk is
declining too and all our other inputs---energy costs are all
increasing, feed costs are going up so it's definitely harder."
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4 comments:
The solution is simple. The corporate food giants, who these farmers are under contract with, need to pay them more.
We pay $4.99 gal for 2% milk. And he thinks the price of milk is going down?
The price they get for their milk is going down. The middle man is making all the money
The middle man corporate food giants will not pay the contract farmers more money because they don't want them to be able to go out and start co-op type of things where the middle man is eliminated. They know this takes money so they don't want the contract farmers having too much of it.
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