Business Services Industry
South Carolina Dairy Farmers Seek State Board to Help Protect against Losses.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Jennifer Talhelm, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 20--BOWMAN, S.C. -- Milking starts at 6 a.m. at Weathers Farms and lasts more than four hours. The cows are herded into the barn and attached to milking machines three times a day, seven days a week.
If there's a good price for milk, brothers Hugh and Landy Weathers make money. If the price is low -- as it has been the last two years -- staying in business is a struggle.
"My concern now is: 'Do I want to encourage my sons to take on this challenge?'" says Hugh Weathers, 47, whose oldest son is 18. "If I think prices are going to be like they were the last two years, I can't knowingly encourage him to take that on."
So many S.C. dairy...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
