This is NOT a small VT business, or dairy farm model. As they currently own 2 dairies, they are a conglom/MEGA farm corp. TO ME, they are or have turned into a factory dairy farm. They likely have income in the $1.5-$2 MILLION range. Nothing small about that! They are not a small dairy. A truly small generational dairy business model would be 75-500 max head. 500 head to 1,000 head is a moderate dairy. They are way surpassing those numbers and as a conglom we would add both hetds into one even though they are located on diff farms. They had 2000 head in the 1980s. I can see by sat pics that they recently added a huge barn, while already having huge barns. I would guess they milk 3-4000 head now?!? They have huge trucks, tractors for harvesting a manure. That rotating milking parlor holds almost 70 to 80 cows, right? Its MEGA sized. Please, this does a huge disservice to our truly small generational dairy farms. Its family run, sure… but its a corp. mega dairy. We. Are. Not. The. Same. Our environmental sustainability is NOT THE SAME. There is nothing sustainable about the mega sizing of dairy in VT. While they are continuing to increase their carbon footprint by mega sizing, our sm gen dairy farms are leading ALL industry in lessening ours. They cont. to increase their environmental impact within their rural farming communities who did not signup for mega sized farming. Instead of sm gen dairies dotting Vermont's rural countryside, their neighbors are forced to see row after row of huge barns full of 1,000s of cows. Instead of sm farms spread out, now there are HUGE dairies in dense areas. It means way more farm traffic, bigger equipment and a shite ton of well… shite. In one yr recently VT lost 30 organic dairy farms when the processor dropped them! Huge producers like how this conglom has chosen to farm glut the milk market, keeping milk prices suppressed and our truly sm gen dairies cant compete or weather that as these mega farms can. Out of ALL the truly small gen family dairy farm models in VT, you chose to highlight a mega dairy as a small business dairy farm🤦🏻♀️How about Butterworks Dairy in Westfield? How about Chaput dairy, their poo produces energy for 300 homes. They are leading VT land-stewards. Even they are classified as a lg dairy with under 1,000 head. So that would make Nelsons, mega sized.
Helped build that farm in 1986 , working for Cole & Webster 😜
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This is NOT a small VT business, or dairy farm model. As they currently own 2 dairies, they are a conglom/MEGA farm corp. TO ME, they are or have turned into a factory dairy farm.
They likely have income in the $1.5-$2 MILLION range. Nothing small about that!
They are not a small dairy. A truly small generational dairy business model would be 75-500 max head.
500 head to 1,000 head is a moderate dairy. They are way surpassing those numbers and as a conglom we would add both hetds into one even though they are located on diff farms.
They had 2000 head in the 1980s. I can see by sat pics that they recently added a huge barn, while already having huge barns. I would guess they milk 3-4000 head now?!?
They have huge trucks, tractors for harvesting a manure.
That rotating milking parlor holds almost 70 to 80 cows, right? Its MEGA sized.
Please, this does a huge disservice to our truly small generational dairy farms. Its family run, sure… but its a corp. mega dairy.
We. Are. Not. The. Same.
Our environmental sustainability is NOT THE SAME. There is nothing sustainable about the mega sizing of dairy in VT. While they are continuing to increase their carbon footprint by mega sizing, our sm gen dairy farms are leading ALL industry in lessening ours. They cont. to increase their environmental impact within their rural farming communities who did not signup for mega sized farming. Instead of sm gen dairies dotting Vermont's rural countryside, their neighbors are forced to see row after row of huge barns full of 1,000s of cows. Instead of sm farms spread out, now there are HUGE dairies in dense areas. It means way more farm traffic, bigger equipment and a shite ton of well… shite.
In one yr recently VT lost 30 organic dairy farms when the processor dropped them! Huge producers like how this conglom has chosen to farm glut the milk market, keeping milk prices suppressed and our truly sm gen dairies cant compete or weather that as these mega farms can.
Out of ALL the truly small gen family dairy farm models in VT, you chose to highlight a mega dairy as a small business dairy farm🤦🏻♀️How about Butterworks Dairy in Westfield?
How about Chaput dairy, their poo produces energy for 300 homes. They are leading VT land-stewards. Even they are classified as a lg dairy with under 1,000 head. So that would make Nelsons, mega sized.
That's what I said
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they are no longer organic.
as mentioned in the video they have 2 type