I have long been an advocate for self-care. Now, with the unique challenges our world faces, it’s more important than ever. You may be wondering, “What is self-care, anyways?”

Young farm families have many expectations to manage as they work on farms as employees, raise small children and juggle time for off-farm revenue. One of the best ways to have less stress about compensation from the farm is to figure out what you need for personal family living expenses.

With a federal government shutdown possible, October’s dairy risk management calendar has the potential to be scarier than Halloween.

While you can’t predict the future, financial benchmarking is a way dairy farmers can review concrete information about their operations – and how they compare to others in the industry – year after year. 

The Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to maintain the interest rate for federal funds at 5.5%.

Despite the nearly 30% fatality rate, hazards related to confined spaces are often overlooked on farms. One of the challenges in addressing hazards around confined spaces is that they can be difficult to identify.

Here’s Progressive Dairy’s monthly review of August FMMO data  to provide some additional transparency to your milk check.