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Lower milk prices may be in store for the first quarter of 2016, according to Bob Cropp, University of Wisconsin – Madison, in his monthly report (PDF, 238KB).
No matter how well you budget or how efficiently you manage your farm business, there may be periods in which cash flow is negative. No one knows for sure when these periods will occur, and how long they will last, but every operation should have a financial contingency plan to provide for unexpected cash-flow shortfalls.
On the farm or ranch, there are many times when we find ourselves in situations where we have to question our right versus our moral obligation to take a particular action. There are still deals made on a handshake or based on someone’s word.
“When you use a file to sharpen a knife, push it so you cut with the file moving away from the edge. When you use a sharpening stone, move either the stone or the blade so that the sharp edge of the blade moves toward the stone.”
Proper seed-to-soil contact is paramount. Your planting equipment should be maintained and in proper order to have successful seeding applications for proper stands.
Most commercial nitrogen fertilizers lower soil pH much more quickly than organic sources of nitrogen such as animal manure or nitrogen resulting from the symbiotic relationship between Rhizobium bacteria and legumes.
Highly saline soils have been a thorn in the side of alfalfa producers in arid regions of the U.S. for years. Soils that are high in salt can limit alfalfa yields and have a negative effect on plant emergence and health.
In December, I was able to go to Las Vegas and experience the spectacle that is the National Finals Rodeo for the first time. My purpose was to attend the PRCA meetings and hopefully gain something that would help me, as a member of our county fair and rodeo board, assist in putting on a better production every August for the locals in south-central Idaho.
It is hard to believe that once again I am here with another whole year in the rearview mirror. I would really like to pull over into the right lane or even the shoulder for a while and get out of the passing lane. Time seems like it keeps building up speed and passing faster and faster all the time. Needless to say, 2015 was a blur.
After nearly 25 years of work, U.S. Custom Harvesters Inc. is welcoming a common-sense provision in the new highway bill. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act has been signed into law.
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