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Milk price slump crushing dairy farms
There is silence in the barns of Starvation Ranch.
Dale Kehoe's heart was wrenched when his family auctioned off its entire herd of 160 Holsteins, from the calves to milking cows, last month. He and his son, Eric, had wanted to keep the farm in the family for the next century. They find it eerie to be in barns that once were active with livestock. Now Dale's German Shepherd, Bubba, herds barn cats instead of cows.
“That's been my whole life from the time I was a little kid, when my mom carried me out to the barn,” Eric said. “I took a lot of pride being able raise up these little baby calves and to be able to produce milk.”
The Starvation Ranch name first was painted on a barn at the farm on Route 41A in Sempronius as a tongue-in-cheek gesture by Dale's father and uncle when their father had gone to town. To the Kehoes' chagrin, a joke of a name has become bitter reality.
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