chrisinthemorning

I read this comment before this one, and I'm really surprised by your profit numbers. Milk goes for three or four dollars a gallon where I'm at, so your numbers for 4,000 to 5,000 gallons would be almost $16,000 a day (4,500 x 3.5). Obviously there are other costs involved: manufacturing, advertising, seasonal variations, product loss, etc, but it still seems like an enormous disparity. Does all the milk go through a middle man that takes an enormous cut after selling it under a "name brand" ? edit: she meant pounds not gallons. Which would bring the number down to a much more reasonable amout

I expected a large disparity, but not one that enormous. What their farm produces in two days is worth more than their yearly profit after expenses. That is just amazing to me. Thanks for mentioning the subsidies. I hadn't considered those, and now I'm going to have to read up on the specifics. edit: well, it looks like those numbers were for pounds and not gallons. I'm going to leave this post instead of deleting it, since NCRVet gave some interesting points below