How do I compare to my competition? How do I know if I am ready to expand? These questions asked by Ohio’s dairy farmers sparked publication of the 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness in 1997.

Companies that treat their accounting software as a tool only for compiling taxes are missing out on the opportunity to produce valuable management reporting.

DeLaval President and CEO Joakim Rosengren has been with the global company for nearly two decades. He recently sat down with Progressive Dairy to share his thoughts on the advancements in milking equipment and his perspective on the industry.

Two cows live on a theoretical farm. Both produce revenue. Both are recently fresh. One calved well, is in good body condition, breezed through the whole transition phase and is ready to breed – and looks like she will peak well.

How can we maximize efficiency and improve our dairy businesses by utilizing our current resources? Operational planning is a management approach that builds the framework for what your business will concentrate on to make improvements in the near future.

During the last 20 years, many dairy farmers have seen their profit margins reduced even though they’re producing more milk.

The extended economic stress in the dairy industry has farm managers taking a close look at all aspects of their operations to find areas to decrease costs, increase productivity and, ultimately, improve profitability.

Dairy farmers struggling to remain profitable face a dilemma: What’s good for an individual operation may not be beneficial for the industry as a whole.

For decades, our accounting firm has produced quarterly dairy farm cost studies for our clients and others to use for benchmarking and profitability improvement. The following is our preliminary report called the 2018 National Dairy Advanced Index.

How do you use the mountain of information that is at your fingertips every month? How do you find the next opportunity or efficiency in the data you collect? Very few dairy farms have systems in place to measure more information than milk production. Looking at data once in a while will not lead you in a positive direction.