"Assuming public support is on its way out, then by the same token, your 50 to 100 cow family farm is on its way out."
"The problem with Europe, or central EU, is that European subsidies have been capitalised into farm values to an extent that makes farm investment comparatively unattractive when compared to countries where you don't have farm subsidies and you make return without having to rely on public support."
"(This is) not because New Zealand dairy farmers are more intelligent, or their cows are prettier, it's because there's a totally different production system based on conversion of grass to milk, a benign climate, an abundance of water supply."
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/29/06/2012/133688/39Small-dairy-farms-have-no-future-in-the-UK39.htm