Land of 10,000 Stories: Huppert Dairy among hundreds selling out

[@macraw5698]

This was so sad for me to see. I grew up on a dairy farm and was hands on in all aspects of it. At the time, it didn't seem so great - very tied down and never could take a family vacation plus my hands were ever so chapped and sore. Forty years later, I value those lessons and moments cleaning out the gutters, hauling silage to the cows, bedding, feeding the baby calves. and all the new kittens in the haymow. It was hard work that we didn't realize was hard....till one is no longer doing it. Still live on a farm, but my kids and grandkids missed the dairy/milking aspects and we only had/have stock cows. They definitely missed out as all of the naysayers and city dwellers have.

[@alittlefun568]

This family is in my prayers. I'm so sorry for your all's loss. I don't want to say you got out at the right time. But, I do think we're no where near the bottom of this crisis. Maybe once the dust has cleared in two decades the forth generation could jump back in. You all kept your land, good job!

[@joyceb8407]

A little fun...Ok this is funny "Maybe once the dust has cleared in two decades the forth generation could jump back in." There will never be any jumping back in, well if we had a "walking dead" type scenario then yes it could happen. But ...no, the big corporations are part of the government food industry takeover. It is happening in every aspect of the food industry and the government will control everyone when they have full control of the food.

[@deerhunter7482]

These hard working families with their ethic can't fail in life ,they are great Americans !

[@squantum001]

The world doesn't owe them a living.

[@gregkoenig9200]

@@squantum001 you are right but you are missing the point it all comes down to food security. When the system gets so big it can control production to control supply. We the people will starve like what happened in Russia. It is how Russia became communist the people were systematically starved

[@matthewcarl6079]

Same thing happened in southeast Louisiana where I am. Almost every rural family use to dairy. Not no more. So sad.

[@randyyoder4898]

What I really really would like to see is small dairy farms having their own processing facilities and selling milk etc locally. People love fresh right off the farm. Time to nip these big megadairies in the butt.

[@FernandoPineda-o9g]

Hell yeah fresh warm milk, milked that morning is the best

[@robertwatkins8220]

Used to be a 60 cow herd was a large dairy! My father made a living with 20 cows and 120 acres! As did my Uncle with 20 cows and 80 acres! I milked 60 cows and and farmed 900 acres. I sold out!

[@slimpickens3863]

Some would say that you were one of the big guys that squeezed out guys with 20 cows. The only thing constant is change.

[@sarahporter9541]

What a sad trend! Loss of the American dream..My Aunt and Uncle owned a dairy farm in Ohio....great memories. And we always got fresh milk from a dairy in N. Minnesota from three older bachelor brothers that loved their herd. What a loss to all of us.. of all farms and ranches that have made our country.

[@mariearmstrong9185]

I sorry for you and your family and all the other small farmers. Its heartbreaking 😢😢

[@joycewoodard1706]

I stopped shopping at Walmart due to things like this.

[@ameliaroque3854]

joyce skipper - noble gesture.

[@hp2084]

hope many more will do the same. Walmart milk doesnt have the quality of a local dairy farm.

[@jjjohnson8623]

joyce skipper Me too! CAFOs farming should be outlawed. Thousands if animals of all sorts are on concrete all their lives + never see the outdoors, feel the sun, rain or dirt under feet. Abused. I stopped eating meat 20yrs ago because of such. Buy only organic dairy, grass fed. Big Ag will control because USDA + FDA want monies + food control. Walmart owned by Socialist party family.

[@keenankelley187]

JJ Johnson I suppose you believe that lettuce you eat has feelings to?? Stop eating meat your the crazy ones that cause these issues along with the millennial’s Crazy Ass people

[@gregkoenig9200]

I come from dairy background and did for years. Now have beef cows. What the consumer don't understand it comes down to low food prices kills the market. Quality and humane care are much better on a smaller scale. But you want to eat as cheap as you can

[@thedonleroy]

Watching this in 2020 in MN & their are no family dairies left in my area. We have 2 huge corporate dairies west of us. One is 9500 head & the other is 11000 head. $50,000,000 dollars to build each dairy I heard.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

I hope they are not so close u can smell them yikes

[@ottawapanoramas9797]

this is why Canada fought so hard to protect our dairy industry in trade talks with the USA. Canadians like our milk free from hormones and antibiotics even if we have to pay a little extra.

[@reddirtfarm7704]

Factory farm's suck!!!! Support your local family farm's and feel good about feeling good!

[@glenncountry]

The massive factory farms with over 1,000 cows are hurting the true family farm. Greed of the big operator.

[@randyyoder4898]

Im not much on government regulations but really they need to put a limit on how many cows you can milk on one farm. Say 300 cows max. Anything over that is charged $100 per cow per day and used to subsidize struggleing farms

[@jjjohnson8623]

glenncountry Animals abused too. Need stop buying any of that dairy or meats. Only organic dairy + meat + range free eggs + chickens.

[@bobanderegg3817]

@@randyyoder4898 I hope you realize that would be socialism.

[@whome1319]

@@jjjohnson8623 The abuse is blown out of proportion, Less stress the cow has more they produce

[@ad356]

@@whome1319 this is true. i haul milk for a living and do farm pickup. ask yourself why a farmer would beat on their cows. that's like shooting yourself in your own foot. illogical.

[@mali2640]

Sad to see that...I wish them well.

[@harrydavis2252]

I know how they felt. I was a 3rd generation in West Virginia but I done the same thing in 2003 . And yes I miss the way of life . But like my father said it's not your fault you're like the dinosaur the family farmers are extinct

[@rexross7086]

So sas. But people have to do what they need to

[@rickboer7715]

When are people going to start to care?

[@kalyanibl]

India is still the land of small dairy farmers. Thanks to the milk cooperative called Amul. It's the largest dairy in the country with millions of dairy farmers attached to it. Corporate dairies couldn't match up to it. I urge the small dairy farmers of US to study it and start a similar model in US.

[@hp2084]

Indian dairy farms are dying too. you are living in euphoria.

[@jjjohnson8623]

Kunal Sarkar Sounds like an idea worth them ckg into.

[@aftersexhighfives]

It won't happen.

[@kadenemerson3569]

Always sad to see family farms sell out I am very fortunate to be in a farming family who farms until the physically can't anymore then there's always one of us to take over

[@bobivanski5635]

So sorry. Best wishes from a fruit farmer in Canada

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I think people aren’t drinking milk as much either. They are drinking soda pop and energy drinks. And cheese is unbelievably high. I’m getting a bigger refrigerator for my room today so I can keep my milk inside the refrigerator rather than on the door. It seems to go bad faster. I hate not having milk. One of the things I remember vividly from my childhood was the milkman coming every Saturday morning to deliver milk. Daddy used to enjoy skimming a little of the cream off the top for his coffee. I’m so sorry to hear about this. You put everything into an operation, blood, sweat, tears and love and in an instant it’s swept away. A change like that can cause a huge amount of depression. And of course the town won’t hesitate to stop and express their concern so it keeps getting dug up. Very sad!!

[@tvviewer4500]

I’d love to own a dairy

[@melaniegreen1311]

I grew up with beef cattle instead of dairy, but makes me feel sad when you know the cattle so well that they even have names. Then one day you have to sell them and it hurts because there is an attachment almost like their your pets, but they are not.

[@johnhatt1219]

Very fricking true

[@millennialseeker7639]

Milk prices tanked? I don't understand. How can it be that milk is at an all-time cheap price when I am paying more for milk than I have ever paid in my life?! I am paying $3.99 a gallon at my local grocery store. Does anyone but me remember when milk was $.99 a gallon? So, who is getting all the money I pay for milk that (apparently) dairy farmers are not getting for their milk? Do we have too many middlemen taking profits out of the middle? Someone should look into this. Something doesn't smell right about this.

[@sescuba6405]

What a shame!

[@AstronautSpaceCake]

A very sad sight to see.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

This is really sad.

[@cindyandyogi]

hope everyone knows they are next on the wally hit list please don t spend a penny there

[@jjjohnson8623]

cindyandyogi Totally agree! They communists from beginning of first store. Read about the man who started their empire. I only went to a mart 3xs iver all these yrs + never liked the poor quality food + mdse.

[@stojanovik69]

It's like in the '30, but this Time is getting the little bit slower. This has a System. Please think about my words. In the '30, the States prepared for the WW II. Now I don't know yet, what They want. Please watch yourself, and don't think, If I closed my.., the storm will go away. I watched in the past, how my country goes to the History Book. ( Look my Name.)

[@thewkovacs316]

progress and these people wanted to stay in biz by sticking it to the consumer

[@danvincent1195]

So sad.

[@dougmatheis108]

Such a shame

[@maldission]

Don’t worry farmers trump has your back... you’ll see! 😉

[@keithchrysler3732]

Trump, despite having rescued the remainder of the economy has not made farming great again. It needs work!

[@RJ1999x]

@@keithchrysler3732 you can't fix farming until you change the mentality of the farmer

[@delprice3007]

@@RJ1999x nope, it's the mentality of corporate greed that has to change

[@RJ1999x]

@@delprice3007 no I disagree. It's not Corp greed that's screwing up farming

[@delprice3007]

@@RJ1999x it's turned heartland America into CAFO flyover country

[@rustyalcorta3643]

The thing is no one is going to hold TRUMP accountable for all these loses.

[@Truthteller100]

More of this.. Hopefully the factories start to fall too.. ❤

[@V1Pin]

Haha .. you are deluded. The family farms treat animals as a part of the family. Factory farms are going to thrive without competition. They drive down prices and buy off cows from smaller farms. They treat animals like trash. People like you are a disease.

[@Truthteller100]

@David Vanpatten 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 it's taking significant well deserved loses every year

[@myrajhall7690]

Gee all this happened under Trump! The billionaire who’s a man of the people.

[@davidkramer6585]

Apparently your lobotomy was a sucess.

[@tugdornink6266]

If he quit that easy that means he didn’t like milking 😂

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

So sad they are sad. BUT...are they sad for their animals? did you see all those cows with their tails cut OFF?? the baby calves stuck in cold snowy UNHEATED pens ALONE and away from their mothers? calves DONT HAVE FUR to keep them warm!! and the filth of a barn in which a FOOD item is being collected for HUMAN consumption! not to mention how the cows GRIEVE and call for their baby calves for days or weeks! and the undeniable covered up fact of the definite link between dairy and human endocrine cancers eh! plant vegetables instead! nut milks are great as are vegan cheeses! many recipes on line.

[@craigh8810]

You’re in a fairytale land. Completely out of touch with the real world. Ever work on a farm before? Ever research why they do what they do? No! My point exactly. Educate yourself.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@craigh8810 ive watched videos of guys who worked on plenty of dairy farms and showed exactly what ive just said. how unfair it was for the cows and the calves. all for the consumption of a product man was never meant to consume in the first place. after my brother had years of consuming milk and dreadful nasal issues, a health food store owner told my mother to quit buying milk! my mother was shocked but did as told. in a week my brothers nasal issues cleared up never to return. But the extensive damage was done...he had to have a nose operation to correct the damage. also i decided not to buy milk for my husband for a week and have him try almond milk instead. he was annoyed but used the nut milk for a week. the next week i got milk and he happily poured it on his cereal. he took one mouthful and spit it out! he was disgusted! threw it in the garbage had to rinse out his mouth! he then used the almond milk and never used milk again.

[@davidkramer6585]

A real expert who's probably never set foot on a farm.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@davidkramer6585 of course ive been on farms; ive worked on horse farms and my sister had a farm full of animals for decades;I went there often. Her stalls etc were NEVER that filthy.

[@michaelsolis1390]

Keep buying walmart and voting republican

[@justinduke8135]

What has voting republican have to do with this

[@michaelsolis1390]

@@justinduke8135 where do you think this problem comes from? Obviusly you don't watch the news...

[@justinduke8135]

I don't really watch the news. I work on farms, ranches, and feedlots, generally there Republican so still not seeing the problem there, I've lost alot of faith in the news in the last 4 years

[@michaelsolis1390]

@@justinduke8135 see Justin unfortunately our current laws need to chance dairy farms are desappearing at staggering pace and that needs to chance, but i don't see republicans doing nothing about it, because they only care for the big corporations such as walmart.

[@whome1319]

@@michaelsolis1390 Lol you even from the midwest? midwest republicans are economically democrat

[@mayganphynix8267]

the Farm Closed Down because people arnt buying Dairy like they Use to. Dairy Free is a THING now! Dairy Free Cheese, Milk, Ice cream. they taste amazing, are healthier, better for the environment&no Animals have to be sent to a terrifying Death, when we eat Vegan food. ✌❤🌎🐾🙌

[@hp2084]

Dairyfree cheese is healthy? what are you smoking lady? Also there is no trend except among some idiots.

[@mayganphynix8267]

Hiren Patel you can go to any store and see the Dairy Free Products. it didnt use to be this common, and its growing. because they taste good and yes, they're healthier. theyre better for us then the breast milk version. why do we need to drink breast milk from a cow?

[@hp2084]

@@mayganphynix8267 Anything thats is deliberately made to mimic something else is never healthy.

[@mayganphynix8267]

Hiren Patel not nessesarily. you can Marinate Portabello Mushrooms and add Burger Seasonings for a Burger. are mushrooms not healthy? why is Breast Milk still Healthy to Consume? dont we not need it anymore?

[@hp2084]

@@mayganphynix8267 A burger without a patty, lol. breast milk comes from animals, yes we are animals AKA mammals. All milk come from breasts, be it humans or cows or buffaloes or goats or sheep or yak or camel or lama or any other mammal. We chose to call human female tits breasts or else tits are tits and has same function and works the same way.

[@karenpenrod1779]

🐷🐖🐗🐗🐮🐄🐂🏇 JAZUS,!!! I heard the tortured scream of a pig Saw cows,hogs,bulls,horses,dogs being crucified not humanely killed! Time is money...instant gratification. Billions of people to feed..etc.,etc., Why not a gun with a silencer?!? THAT WOULD NOT BE PROFITABLE!

[@lindabergman3127]

Thousands frozen to death last winter in midwest n others drowned during the massive floodings this year 🙏 see Agwn YT footage of the Midwest floodings destructions.towns n cities gone or underswater crops and wildlife drowned!! Where's the missing farmers n ppls? Mike Morales YT footage

[@lindabergman3127]

I couldn't stand to do it😭😭😭