Producers are looking for and achieving ways to save money as they deliver their products to the processor. A recent phenomenon in use in New Mexico is the process of reverse osmosis, which removes water from milk. The milk nutrients are then transported to the bottling plant, to other states away from the farm, and the water re-added for consumption. Using this process, more milk is hauled at once and less weight is carried in the journey. For the romantic among us in agriculture, and I believe there is a little love of nature in every producer, there is still a season for all things.
Planting heralds both the end of winter and the blush of summer.
The arrival of babies, whether beef, sheep or dairy answer no call but their own. So, when the millennium dawned, farmers in New Mexico were anticipating the release of irrigation waters as a start to another century of growing. They kept their fingers crossed that no range babies would come in the last of the winter winds. Dairymen were courting more production plants to fulfill bottling and cheese production requirements. It is this steadiness of purpose that has produced reliable growth from ag's efforts.