It is a phenomenon which has been going on for well over 10 years!. In the decade of the sixties, there were 40,000 dairy farms in 1998, there were about 18,000 dairy farms, there is today little more than 10,000. The slogan is to produce more to maintain the level of income and when we can no longer grow in production, the options are narrowing and end. The cows are going to another farm that tries to grow bigger by having greater surface area or make the attempt to higher loading and supplementation achieving the milk but complicating the numbers. The closing rate of dairy farms in these 10 years has been of 250 per year. The following Table was armed with data from GOVERNMENT and estimating the year 2018:
The concentration of cows in less tanks is a global phenomenon. In Argentina in the next 4 years we will have a 1,000 barrels less in production. The farm size ends up being a determining factor when assessing the continuity in the dairy business, because even if they have a good return may be that the money does not reach as to maintain for the owner. The process is ongoing and as we see in the graph with data of SENASA, 34% of the dairy farms in the country produces nearly 70% of the national milk. 
Marcos Snyder 