Editor's note: CEO Corners are editors' compilations of business news from top publications, which they have tailored for the dairy industry. United’s forced removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight offers several lessons for dairy producers. Here were my three general takeaways for dairy producers from the incident:

When it comes to selecting accounting software, think about where you are now and where you eventually want to end up. If you are just new to the computer, buying a comprehensive and complicated financial package will probably leave you frustrated and without any useful records.

USDA’s monthly World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report reduced the 2017 U.S. milk production forecast, with a slowdown in the growth of milk per cow offsetting a larger U.S. dairy herd. Despite the reduction, USDA also cut projected 2017 milk and dairy product prices, citing large domestic and international supplies.

When Laurie Winkelman isn’t running rations for her dairy farm customers, she’s running miles – and lots of them. The dairy nutritionist is lacing up for her fifth Boston Marathon next week, which will be the 26th 26.2-mile trek she’s completed thus far.

Retained placentas can be terribly frustrating. Not only can they open the door to a host of secondary disorders, but you just never know if one is a fluke or if you are heading for a transition cow train wreck.

U.S. exports of milk powder, whey products and cheese trended higher in February, pushing overall U.S. dairy exports to $438.4 million, up 14 percent from last year (and up 18 percent adjusted for leap day), according to Alan Levitt, vice president of communications and market analysis at the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC).

ProAction Animal Care is here: Dairy farms across Canada are completing their animal assessments, and validations will begin in September. This article will not go into detail about the program; you can get that information at the link below and through your provincial dairy organization. Rather this article will explain how you can use the results to benefit your farm.

On April 4, the USDA – acting in response to a directive from President Donald J. Trump – authorized emergency grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands located in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas – the three states that were most heavily impacted by ongoing wildfires that began on March 6.