Re: What price grassfed raw milk?

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Jerome--

If we paid that much per gallon here for just milk, we would go broke. Sally had a recent article where $4-5 gallon was the going rate. I pay five because I want that farmer to have extra working capital. The guys get $3 gallon at the cheese factory, so less is an insult for quality milk. Sometimes if I'm getting 6+ gallons they'll give me a break. I get the stuff out of the tank myself. Time and containers are mine.

Cream/Colostrum/SuperMilk does come considerably higher, and I agree for your Health, it's worth every dime.

And for your father-in-law to say you're "Youthing"?.......Priceless.....lol

--Terry

> > Dear in Wisconsin,> >> > I think your point is well taken. What people who want> > raw milk most need to consider is that unless you pay the farmers> > well, there will be no more raw milk anywhere before long. Try> > buying a couple of acres of pasture, putting a fence around it,> > getting a cow and taking care of it, and milking it once or twice> > a day. Then see what you think a gallon of raw milk from a grassfed> > animal is worth. You might try living on nothing else for a> > month or so, watching all your medical problems disappear, and> > throwing away your medical insurance, before deciding on that per> > gallon dollar value. I suspect at that point that you'll place it> > a bit above two bucks a gallon.> >> > Ron in Connecticut> > Having performed the experiment of "living on nothing else for a month> or so, watching all your medical problems disappear...", I find that

[Guest guest]

Terry,

Your source has a TANK?! Well, then they have some volume going.

My source only has two cows, very nice guernsey-jersey and jersey

on green pasture, with no local competition that I know of. He asks

$8 per gallon, which I gladly pay, given that Organic Pastures goes

for $12-13 per gallon in the local health-food stores...

I agree that the price seems shockingly high, yet it's still very

cheap compared to other, less effective medicine!

I suspect that the high price of land in California, and the dearth

of people taking up small-scale dairy farming, has given us a higher

price out here than much of the country.

- Jerome, happily sipping his milk (with extra cream)

on day 29 of raw milk, colostrum and cream

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:55:33 -0500

" Terry L. " wrote:

> Jerome--

> If we paid that much per gallon here for just milk, we would go

> broke. Sally had a recent article where $4-5 gallon was the going

> rate. I pay five because I want that farmer to have extra working

> capital. The guys get $3 gallon at the cheese factory, so less is

> an insult for quality milk. Sometimes if I'm getting 6+ gallons

> they'll give me a break. I get the stuff out of the tank myself.

> Time and containers are mine.

>

> Cream/Colostrum/SuperMilk does come considerably higher, and I agree for your

Health, it's worth every dime.

>

> And for your father-in-law to say you're " Youthing " ?

........Priceless.....lol

> --Terry

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Jerome--

Yup. Even the Amish guys with only 10 cows do an electrified cooling tank. I'll remember this comment the next time somebody tries calling Ohio farmers "hicks"....lol It may be that to resell the milk "legally" it has to be this way. --tls

Re: What price grassfed raw milk?

Terry,Your source has a TANK?! Well, then they have some volume going.......

- Jerome, happily sipping his milk (with extra cream)on day 29 of raw milk, colostrum and cream> Jerome-- > If we paid that much per gallon here for just milk, we would go> broke. Sally had a recent article where $4-5 gallon was the going> rate. I pay five because I want that farmer to have extra working> capital. The guys get $3 gallon at the cheese factory, so less is> an insult for quality milk. Sometimes if I'm getting 6+ gallons> they'll give me a break. I get the stuff out of the tank myself. > Time and containers are mine.> > Cream/Colostrum/SuperMilk does come considerably higher, and I agree for your Health, it's worth every dime. > > And for your father-in-law to say you're "Youthing"?.......Priceless.....lol> --Terry

[Guest guest]

At 04:10 PM 3/29/04 -0800, you wrote:

>Terry,

>

>Your source has a TANK?! Well, then they have some volume going.

>My source only has two cows, very nice guernsey-jersey and jersey

>on green pasture, with no local competition that I know of. He asks

>$8 per gallon, which I gladly pay, given that Organic Pastures goes

>for $12-13 per gallon in the local health-food stores...

>

>I agree that the price seems shockingly high, yet it's still very

>cheap compared to other, less effective medicine!

>

>I suspect that the high price of land in California, and the dearth

>of people taking up small-scale dairy farming, has given us a higher

>price out here than much of the country.

>

>- Jerome, happily sipping his milk (with extra cream)

> on day 29 of raw milk, colostrum and cream

You people are making me feel lucky for paying $5/gallon, and thinking that

the person paying $2/gallon should pay $5/gallon out of the goodness of her

heart and the joy of promoting good healthy raw milk!

*runs off to invent the Lucky Dance*