Are there many dairies in those states or southern Indiana Ohio? Are they kinda grouped in certain areas within each state? And what is considered a big dairy in the area?

There’s a 40, 60, 250, 600, and 1500 head dairy within 20 minutes of me. I’ve heard rumors of the 40 starting to liquidate the cow herd. I know of at least that many that have shut the doors since 2010.

When I left the WKU dairy 3 years ago there were right at 400 dairies left in KY. Don’t want to leave anyone out, but there’s Big pocket of great dairies in the Warren,barren,metcalf, Todd and Christian county area
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Almost non existent in my part of the state now. When i was a kid about every farmer around here raised a few acres of tobacco and milked 15 or 20 cows. i guess the government paid them to quit milking or something like that.