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Cow Parade Lala ‘pastarán’ en León, originally uploaded by RightIndex.

Yesterday Lala, one of Mexico’s major milk producers, known for scattering life-size model cows around major Mexican cities, purchased National Dairy, the US company that owns the Borden and Dairy Fresh brands.

Here’s an interesting story on how Lala got going.
There is a saying in Gomez Palacio [...]

Taking a breather before my next rant but meantime let me just thank all for the comments and just a few round up generalizations.
Grains.  Maria, really appreciated your insight that Crete may be self sufficient in most foodstuffs but not grains.
Subsidies.  Kay and Adam, I wish, I wish I had some grip on the subsidy [...]

Small farms,  in my opinion, are not the future of agriculture.  I’m asked all the time about why I hold this unfashionable position. It’s a tangled set of issues and I will post about several aspects over the next week or so.
But let’s start with my most basic worry. Farming is a business, an industry.  [...]