As more agriculture technology comes onto the market, there is a clear need to integrate foundational management practices with new precision technologies. Precision technologies can include anything from tractors with autosteer to soil moisture sensors to variable-rate fertilizer or seeding.

When making a change as big as a new barn, you’ve been planning for years before even breaking ground.

As a dairy business consultant, I’m frequently asked two questions: 1) With components contributing most of the pay price, and the high cost of trucking and marketing milk, should I be focusing more on components and less on volume? and 2) We are good at enhancing butterfat and protein tests by manipulating the lysine-to-methionine ratios in the diets, but does it pay to do so when milk prices are low?