Sad story

[Patrick]

Many of you probably have already heard about it, about the dairy farmer who killed his cows then self. Can't imagine what the guy was going through. I suppose in some ways we're lucky that the small family farm poultry industry died years ago.

http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2010/01/23/news/doc4b5a8594d27e5066242281.txt

[Altair]

Yeah that's nuts. My thoughts go out to his family who're left to pick up the pieces.

[kenmisk]

Yes it is sad. I live near Lancaster Pa. and hear all the time about how terrible dairy farming is, in the local farm paper. It is ashame when you cannot make an honest living, while providing the public with very essential food. And to make it worse, the price of milk in the stores is going higher and higher. So you know that they are getting the short end. Pa. does allow them to sell their milk from the farm raw, with a permit. Maryland will not allow any of that and that makes it really hard on the farmers.

ken

[prairiechicken]

As someone who's in the dairy business, let me say, this lousy price has hurt the factory farmer more than the little farmer. The factory farmer has to buy all their feed and they've borrowed small fortunes to keep the cows fed. The little guy has never made money anyhow, so he's used to it. :)

Anyway, the price is up now!

Sad, I read in Dairystar about the guy who took his life plus killed his best cows. Sad. Selfish. Suicide is a selfish act as they've given no thought to the poor people left behind to pick up the pieces and live with the shame.

[snipe67]

I think the dairy farmer has a major depression and have a big problem so ge killed cows and also himself.