More on organic dairy farming and business.  And the nature of capitalism.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/7/15040/01451/#comment11

No need to get rid of money, we just need to stop it's use as a tool to manipulate every aspect of life into just a part of the corporate bottomline.

Certifying your own pasture is worthwhile, given the high price of certified feed.  163 bucks per ton for ground agribizz chem corn, 380 bucks per ton (and rising) for organic corn.  

Certification transition is problematic.  Stonyfield helps farmers with that financial risk, government ought to do it too.  Pay a 10 cent per kwh subsidy to farmers for each renewable kwh.  That would help.

Healthcare?  Well if you feed cows corn, even organic corn, they tend to get sick.  A weakened immune system breeds disease organisms.  Then antibiotics are applied.  Breeding stronger resistant disease organisms.

Rotational grazing is working to revive family farming here in Wisconsin.  wisconsin public tv has a great program on farmers who skipped a generation, became proffessionals, then went back to revive a farm that went out of business with the old methods.  They revived it with rotational grazinmg, and they get time off every winter.  unlike regular farmers.

Biogas energy from manure and farm waste is here too, farmers are selling power to the grid.  And producing organic fertilizer.

Money, capitalism, the will to financial happiness, financial prosperity and security, all work well together.  

Unless the economic system is manipulated for monopoly corporate bottomline considerations exclusively.  Excluding competition, innovation, and quality of life for we the people.

The family farm is the ancient birthplace of capitalism, real competitive small business capitalism.