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What to ask about carbon market enrollment

March 31, 2022

Amanda Raster and Thayer Tomlinson

Carbon market programs can offer agricultural producers strong incentives to implement practice changes that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve soil health.

8 tips for winterizing your ranch

December 2, 2021

Janelle Hulme

With winter quickly approaching, preparing your ranch’s cattle-handling equipment, buildings and machinery becomes time-sensitive. It’s critical that livestock are handled safely and that handlers remain productive even when Mother Nature drops the temperature.

Managing risk through winter annual small-grain forages

September 1, 2021

Jason Hartschuh

Winter annual forages have become a mainstay for many dairy and beef rations across the country. The greatest challenge for many of my local producers is managing harvest timing to maximize quality with rain events that not only delay custom harvesters but also cause your perfectly timed harvest to come to a halt.

How to safely succeed in custom harvesting

July 9, 2021

Becky Arnold

There’s a lot of pressure on custom harvesters. In a small window of time, they are rushing to get multiple clients’ forages ensiled – often across many states with a dog-tired crew by the end of the season.

Lean on me

July 9, 2021

Joy Hendrix

There is no adrenaline rush quite like trying to get a field harvested before a storm hits or the anticipation of waiting for a field to dry out so you can run an implement through.

What is the ‘next’ for your calf program?

June 4, 2021

Robert James

I doubt that anyone would deny we are living in an age of disruption. Successful dairy managers do not just “respond” to the current situation; they anticipate the impact of future “disruptors” and are proactive. Strict adherence to what has been successful in the past may mean “failure” in the future.

Monitoring hay to prevent barn fires

May 31, 2021

Jason Hartschuh

It is 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and the hay is just finally dry enough to bale. On the first round in the field, my pocket vibrates just as my radio sitting in the cup holders starts to blast; it must be bad news.

December-January risk management calendar

December 21, 2020

Ron Mortensen

Have a happy holiday season! What will be in your Christmas stocking? No coal, I hope. How about cheese, eggnog, butter and gift certificates for your favorite cheese pizza?

Risk management has many perspectives, tools

December 16, 2020

Emily Barge

Navigating an uncertain marketplace can be more successful by implementing a variety of risk management strategies best suited for the individual dairy operation, three Pennsylvania dairy producers noted during the 11th annual Dairy Financial and Risk Management Conference, hosted by the Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence.

Learn to use milk price risk management

October 1, 2020

Modern milk price risk management has been around for more than 20 years. As we have seen in 2020, with the impact of COVID-19 on the dairy market, milk price volatility is not going away.

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