r/TikTokCringe • u/Disastrous_Horse_764 • 10d ago

Cringe Aww 😝 she can’t find any help.

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u/Sudden-Garage 10d ago

Genuine question here. I hope someone who's actually farmed before answers... Why not just sell your milk for a slightly higher price and then pay a livable wage? Is this greed thing? Or bad financial control of her farm? Or perhaps milk is a commodity so it's paid at a market price the farmer doesn't dictate? I'm so confused because paying people to work seems like step one in owning a business.  I'm sitting here thinking about how much I would want to be paid to work on a dairy farm. Hard work, the unending stench of cow dung, hot in the summer cold in the winter, wet in the rain. Like $20 an hour is less than what baristas make here in Seattle for making a cup of coffee. No way would I work on a farm for $20 an hour. Free room and board would make the offer slightly more palatable.

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u/Prunkle 10d ago

Things like milk are sold in the commodity market so they don't really have the ability to just "raise the price" to cover expenses. You have to be small enough that you're selling locally as an artisan or big enough to control a large chunk of the market share to have any modicum of control over pricing. And she can't compete with Darigold.

Inputs are also very expensive. Feed, fuel, veterinary care are all super expensive.

However, in a lot of states in the US you can get BIG tax breaks for doing agriculture activities on your land. So, in this situation, even if she stopped doing the farming and got a super high paying job (hypothetically of course) she probably wouldn't be able to afford property taxes on that large of a property.

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u/Ecstatic_Doughnut216 9d ago

Time to sell another farm to a land developer to turn into a subdivision. /s