Critics are increasing their calls for the Fed to stop raising interest rates, warning that higher interest rates and continuing inflation negatively impact farmers on several fronts.

Digest highlights

• See us at World Dairy Expo
• Vitaliano: Dairy markets face near-term uncertainty
• Dairy cull cow marketing jumped in August
• Fed ratchets interest rates higher
• Longhorned tick discovered in northern Missouri
• Farmland values to plateau

Without rubbing salt in the wound, we all know fall is not easy for a farm’s cash flow. Milk cheques are often at their lowest at the end of summer, and field crops consume a lot of cash flow during this time as well, making autumn a difficult time of year.

Digest highlights

• Ag loan interest rates move higher
• GDT product prices mixed
• FSA increases LIP payments for young dairy, beef cattle
• DFA, Pizza Hut partnering on sustainability project
• Northeast DBIC offers dairy funding

I’d like to dive a bit deeper into the concept that I mentioned in a previous article and which I frequently teach – infinite banking.