The Conversation - Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene County, Tennessee, told me with a tinge of sadness.That was six years ago. Today, only 14 dairy farms remain in Greene County, and there are only 125 dairy farms in all of Tennessee. Across the country, the dairy industry is seeing the same trend: In 1970, more than 648,000 US dairy farms milked cattle. By 2022, only 24,470 dairy farms were in operation.
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The farms are huge, cows never go outside, the use of chenicals and carbon is run rampant, they produce more milk than ever, and farmers are still going broke because the price of food is so high that all people can afford is processed junk, but too low to pay farmers a decent rate. We need agricutute aat a much different scale to feed everyone and not destroy the planet
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