Rants Ramblings and Other Nonsense

Dairy farms going out of business, processors losing customers, over production, higher producing cows are all things that have been repeated over and over again. It happened in the 1960's,70's, 80's. Small processors closed and markets were lost. Retailers vertically integrated to processing their own milk. Large dairy co-op's swallowed smaller ones. Executives of processors flew around the country in corporate jets, dined in the finest restaurants, and stayed in the best hotels. They enjoy huge salaries and benefits that do not reflect the prices the dairy producers receive or their performance reviews. (If indeed they do exist)? Federal Market Orders are antiquated and in conflict with the market stability they claim to create.  Labor issues loom, immigration laws and regulations are thrown around like a ball on a Rugby field with no concern for the needs of food producers. Large retailers require their suppliers to meet more and more fad and fear driven standa...

Here we are on the last day of Standard Time in the United States, and we change our clocks tonight, moving them forward an hour. I will just loose an hour of sunlight in the morning and arbitrarily gain it in the afternoon. Is that stupid or what? The most frustrating part is that my internal body clock does not change, no it just adjusted to the Spring change about a month ago.  Why do we do this? Is it just to remind us that we must follow our governing masters? I have heard that people have more daylight to enjoy after working hours and I find that to be an absolute joke. Using the lights in the morning and not in the afternoon has not prevented electrical brownouts late in day in summer, so what could it be. Could it be just another example of how absolutely displaced from reality our governing bodies in Washington, DC are. I think it has a greater possibility of being true than some other options. Kids will now be getting on the school busses and walking to scho...