NEW DELHI, April 23 -- David Van Drehle, a dairy farmer 35 miles west of St. Cloud, took $11,000 out of savings to balance the books in 2018, and he doesn't see how the business will get any better.
"I made a nice living on 50 cows until three years ago. It's getting worse every year," Van Drehle said. "We've got a son graduating from high school this year. He wants to farm. She tells him not to."
He jerked his thumb toward his wife, Luann, sitting next to him according to the reports published in startribune.com.
"What for?" she said.
Milk prices are in a four-year slump, the big dairies keep getting bigger and the small ones keep going out of business. More than 1,100 Minnesota dairy farmers have quit in the past six years.
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