Dairy farming

I am interested in the transitions of dairy farming in Vermont. In the 1950’s-1960’s, dairy farming was using advanced machinery. The farmers were mechanizing the dairy farms. Because of this, a lot of these dairy farms grew bigger, and they made more dairy products. The small dairy farms do not have enough machinery, because they could not afford it. The small farms had to be shut down due to a shortage of money to keep the dairy farms running. Vermont heavily relies on the production of dairy farming. It is estimated that, “dairy annually accounts for 70-80 percent of Vermont’s agricultural sales, making it the number one state in the United States in its dependency on one commodity” (Parsons 1). Since Vermont’s agricultural sales are so dependent on dairy, the farms that produce these products are expected to perform well. The farms that are producing dairy products have become larger in order to produce dairy at a faster pace. This type of responsibility puts a lot of pressure on the workers of these farms.…

The American dairy industry is constantly growing and is always in a state of flux. With the milk market expanding to places in every corner of the globe, American dairy farmers strive to suffice the needs of an ever growing world population. The American dairy industry provides over 1,500,000 million jobs nationwide and generates billions in taxpayer dollars. It is a well-known fact that the dairy industry contributes immensely to the economies of thousands of communities, regions, and…

In the early nineteenth century, traditional dairy farms in the northern United States and southern Canada, usually mixed livestock agriculture and grain cultivation as well. Women usually made milk of one or a few cows into several hundred pounds of better, and less often made cheese for household use, selling or trading between local merchants (McMurry, 1995) Dairy products were for subsistence first and market commodities second. Between the 1840’s and 1880’s farmers on medium size to large…

When thinking of where the meat in the supermarket comes from, one might imagine a grassy farm with healthy livestock that was raised by a family. Sadly, this happy image that’s plastered on our products and shown in cartoons is a mere ploy for the customers of the meat and dairy industry. The reality is a gruesome scene of poultry, pigs, and cattle being forced into confined spaces where they suffer every day. A vast majority of farms in the United States focus on producing the largest amount…

S. states. This is a states with 75 percent forest, and not development reached at rural areal. Peoples are dependent on their farm, hunting, and snowboarding business. There are also not many diverse cities in Vermont. There are few of cities, and they are Burlington, Winooski, Essex, and Montpelier etc. Vermont is growing cities and their economic with diverse culture and tradition. To what extent has the unique situation of the dairy industry in Vermont created an economic "pull" factor…

King Farms Safety and Health Policy King Farms, a dairy farm located in Sturgeon, Missouri has hired me, as a safety and health manager to develop a safety and health policy to protect all employees at King Farms and provide a culture of safety. The organization has twenty employees and as a mission to treat each employee as a member of their own family. King Farms wants to send their employees home after each day healthy and without any injuries. The overall goal of this policy is to implement…

animals any different? Despite the way we see pigs, often only mindlessly thought of as bacon, studies have shown that they “outperform 3-year-old human children on cognition tests and are smarter than any domestic animal, and animal experts consider them more trainable than cats or dogs” (“If Your Dog Tasted…”). Now, accepting that these animals are sentient beings that deserve to live without torture, anyone who calls themselves an animal lover cannot overlook the conditions in which animals…

teachers. How many of you have moved house or maybe even just moved rooms? How many schools have you been to? All of you would have at least been to two. The concept of change for many is quite frightening, for some exciting, but for me it’s something that has been quite a regular thing while I was growing up. I’m not talking about my body or changing your sheets I’m talking about the changes that to a kid can seem quite drastic, a big deal, and life changing. It is said that the average…

Vredenburg 1 Amber Vredenburg Professor Green ENG 170-03 3 December 2014 Industrial Dairy Production Misconceptions “Major problems exist with the theory that higher or greater intelligence grants us the right to dominate and consume others though because it provides us with the argument that it is all right to eat human babies and people with mental disabilities because they potentially lack the same intelligence we possess” (Keegan par.18) Most people assume that dairy consumption is cruelty…

This study was conducted in Selale, one of the 18 zones of the Oromia regional state in Ethiopia. The research site is located between 37 and 100km Northwest of Addis Ababa. It has a high potential for rain-fed cereal and livestock production. The main food crops are barley, wheat, teff, beans and peas. Livestock is considered to be the main asset of the farming community. There are two cropping seasons in a year. The major cropping season is characterized by relatively high rainfall, starting…