The answer, agricultural economists say, is that dairying doesn't offer
farmers much profit.
Not exact matches
For all Baumann and Grant's bluster about innovation and feeding the world, many
farmers worry that this merger is motivated by
profit alone — which will be
much easier to make after the tie - up.
The Common Agricultural Policy really is mad, giving cash to
farmers based on how big their farms are, so the average UK farm makes ten times as
much in subsidies as they do in commercial
profits.
A long time ago,
farmers found out that animals eating raw food put on a lot of lean mass but not
much fat or the weight needed to make good
profits.
This made matters
much worse for the
farmers because it made the non
profit period longer and thus more
farmers had to throw in the towel.
Beef is a
much larger industry than leather, so you have
farmers who already are selling meat who decide to sell leather to make extra
profit from expenses they're putting out anyway.