Proactively strategize with your dairy’s key stakeholders to maximize cattle marketability in case the time comes to sell the cows.

Costs of production are a common theme of farm profitability. However, it is also often confusing, elusive and changing.

Lenders tend to put a lot of weight on the strength of the balance sheet and primarily appraise tangible assets to make our balance sheet flow. This helps to set sale prices and make lending work. 

For these three Pennsylvania dairy producers, their stories are each very different but have one commonality: working full-time on their family’s dairy operation wasn’t always their dream.

There’s a lot of buzz around renewable natural gas (RNG) as a means for dairy farmers to diversify revenue while improving their carbon footprints. For many operators, it can be a particularly attractive option, especially given the current market and economic conditions.

Ranches are dynamic biological systems where numerous things interact with one another in the “whole” of the ranch. This makes decision-making for ranch managers challenging, as often the interaction of multiple factors needs to be considered in order to achieve a desired outcome.