{"id":1484,"date":"2011-03-22T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2011\/03\/sharemilking_in_the_arts\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:17:28","slug":"sharemilking_in_the_arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/sharemilking_in_the_arts.php","title":{"rendered":"Sharemilking in the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my daily reading and wandering, I like to follow at least a few threads related to slow food and local food systems, as there seem to be so many productive connections between healthy local food systems and healthy local arts systems. Today I stumbled onto a practice in New Zealand farming that seemed rich with promise (if not practical application).<\/p>\n

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Sharemilking<\/a> is an agreement between a young dairy farmer and an established dairy farmer moving toward retirement. Says the article overview<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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In a sharemilking agreement, a young farmer operates a farm on behalf of the farm owner for an agreed share of farm income and expenses. The arrangement offers young farmers a way to build assets and dairy management skills without requiring a large amount of capital input at the beginning of their careers.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Since dairy farms are both capital intensive and work intensive, sharemilking offers a transition of both work and capital over an extended period, and also fosters knowledge and skill sharing across generations of farmers.<\/div>\n
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I honestly have no idea how this might connect, in a practical way, to arts and cultural endeavor. But I have an image of an aging and established theater company in a community slowly decreasing their own use of their space to allow an upstart group to use it more frequently. Each would transfer knowledge and energy to the other, and the large capital requirements of professional-grade theater would be made available to some fresh new voices while they got their organizational legs under them.<\/div>\n
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The article has some wonderful context about how the sharemilking model is evolving with the shifts in costs and operating dynamics of dairy farms. I’m even less sure how this relates to arts and culture, except that it’s cool to know that there’s a ”cows-for-land equation,” and that it’s shifting over time in rather dramatic ways.<\/div>\n
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Moo.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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