Our habits are important in establishing how we behave and how others perceive us. I worked with a supervisor who was habitually discrediting employees with negative body language and derogatory comments.

California has regulated the marketing of milk produced within its borders since 1935, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled portions of a federal law covering milk marketing areas was nconstitutional. Now, more than 80 years later, a process is underway that could align California with the federal milk marketing order (FMMO) system.

In my role, I have the opportunity to work with a wide assortment of dairy producers, utilizing varying degrees of technology on their operations.

Today, many dairy operations find they need the flexibility of exchange-traded options, which allow you to not only protect attractive margins, but also capture future incremental improvements.

It’s not too late to manage your risk for 2017. While the deadline to participate in the Margin Protection Program (MPP) has passed, producers still have the opportunity to plan and implement a risk management plan for 2017.

The years of 2008 and 2009 are still very vivid in the minds of the dairy farmers who weathered the huge drop in milk prices during those years. This period of time, known as the Great Recession, is also stuck in the minds of the rest of the world.

Ask a dairyman what keeps him or her up at night, and chances are it will be one of these issues: How will I afford to keep renting land at sky-high rates? Who is going to milk my cows?

Owning one of only two commercial dairies in the state of Hawaii, Steve Whitesides could be considered the “big kahuna” of Hawaii’s dairy industry.

Right after college, the Beer brothers, Jeff and Regg, did not come back home to take over the family dairy in Milford, Indiana. However, as their father continued to expand the herd and operation, each brother saw a need for their specific skills and a full-time position for them on the Beer Dairy.