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Stop walking on eggshells

Examples of how borderline personality disorder can cause destruction in farm families.
August 24, 2023
Andy (Caygeon) Junkin

What causes 30-plus years of building a family and a farm to fall apart within five minutes? Well, there are several reasons, but one is borderline personality disorder.



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Selling the cows? 4 things to avoid

Feeding a high-quality ration, maintaining consistent genetics, managing data and having a proper plan in place can add to your final paycheck.
August 23, 2023
Mandy Schmidt

Proactively strategize with your dairy’s key stakeholders to maximize cattle marketability in case the time comes to sell the cows.



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July FMMO uniform prices moved lower while pooling levels changed little

Progressive Dairy catches up on monthly FMMO prices and pooling data after watching glaciers and whales.
August 22, 2023
Dave Natzke

Here’s Progressive Dairy’s monthly review of the numbers to provide some additional transparency to your milk check.


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Do you need a chief technology officer on your dairy?

As on-farm data increases in quantity and complexity, some dairies may benefit from having someone on staff to oversee technology and manage this data.
August 21, 2023
David Cook

In order to stay abreast – or surpass – your competition, you need to effectively manage data to continue to make the most of your resources.



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Back to school on costs of production

A discussion of costs and other metrics of profitability in the context of theory, evidence and future contemplation.
August 8, 2023
Kevin Bernhardt

Costs of production are a common theme of farm profitability. However, it is also often confusing, elusive and changing.


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Overcoming a language barrier with employees

Tips for training and communicating with employees who speak languages and dialects other than Spanish and English.
August 8, 2023
Jorge Delgado

As a nation that depends on immigrants and foreign labor to work in agriculture, the diversity of this population and their languages bring new challenges to the dairy industry.


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Economic update: A matter of interest

With borrowing rates rising, so has the interest in the impact on agricultural producers.
August 4, 2023
Dave Natzke

Farm lending activity at commercial banks slowed through the first half of 2023 as interest rates continued to push higher.


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Weekly Digest: Class I mover formula change losses add up

Here is a brief look at the news affecting dairy producers during the first days of August 2023.
August 1, 2023
Dave Natzke

Milk producers in just 13 counties marketed 25% of the total Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) milk marketings in December 2022.


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Economic update: ‘Dog days’ of summer have bark, bite

Here’s an update of factors impacting your dairy income as July-August’s “dog days” of summer near their conclusion.
August 1, 2023
Dave Natzke

Despite weakening milk prices this summer, U.S. average prices for replacement cows moved higher, while strong beef prices continued to push market cow prices to an eight-year high.


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June 2023 DMC margin falls below ‘catastrophic’ floor

Despite lower feed costs, lower milk prices drove dairy producer margins to new lows.
July 28, 2023
Dave Natzke

DMC indemnity payments will surpass income margins for many dairy producers.


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