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Thanksgiving Gratitude For Farmers
Thanksgiving Gratitude for our Farmers
 
In early June, my husband and I travelled to northern Illinois for his family reunion.
We travelled along the Missouri and Iowa side of the Mississippi River, viewing hundreds of miles of flooded fields than could not be plowed.
Unprecedented rain fell in the Spring.  The rivers, springs and creeks could not handle the water that flows to the Mississippi River.
I wondered how these farmers were surviving the season. It's June and the fields have so much water. Plowing is impossible!
 
As we visited family in northern Illinois that are dairy farmers, we learned the impact of the flooding. 
 
Dairy farmers have extensive acreage to grow pasture grass and corn. An average dairy cow can eat up to 100 pounds per day.
 
 
The cost of feeding the cows, without the normal acreage of crops was a major impact.
 
I've learned the profit margin for dairy cow milk is low for the farmer. It's been that way for too many years.
 
Why do they do it? It's their way of life and they love it. 
 
Milking twice a day with over 100 head of cattle is a 365 day per year job. 
The farmer is a mechanic, veterinarian, agronomist, and so many other specialties rolled into one. 
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