Dairy operators like Donny Rollin in Riverdale are paid per one-hundred pounds of milk. He said you can break even somewhere between $16 and $19-dollars per hundred pounds.
If they don't, dairy operators may be forced to take part in the next round of herd buyouts, which some producers said is needed. Despite the glut on the market, cows still must be milked.
Feed prices remain high but Rollin said he's in it for the long run,
Rollin said the slaughterhouse is not an option for his cows.
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