Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I'm done.

[Kaleva]

41. Large family farms produce about 66% of dairy products. Small family farms can't compete.

"USDA: 97 percent of U.S. farms are family-owned"

"Large family farming operations, which NASS defines as having annual GCFI of $1 million or more, account for just three percent of family farms. They produce, however, 64 percent of vegetable sales, 66 percent of dairy sales and high percentages of most other agricultural commodities."

https://www.drovers.com/article/usda-97-percent-us-farms-are-family-owned

"Even Mega-Farms Are Mostly Family Owned "

"Even big farms are usually family-owned. Of farms with gross annual sales of $1 million or more, 94 percent are family farms. Of farms with 10,000 acres or more, 86 percent are family businesses. Nor is this a situation where a tiny fraction of non-family farms own most of the land or produce an outsized portion of our food. For both stats, non-family farms represent less than 10 percent of the total. What’s more, the balance of power between corporate and family farms hasn’t changed much during the decades when farms got more and more massive."

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-mega-farms-are-mostly-family-owned/