Center for Dairy Excellence

Change your risk management mindset

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:09:44 -0400

The COVID-19 pandemic taught and continues to teach numerous lessons to those of us in the dairy industry. We found out in March 2020 that the processing and packaging part of the industry could adapt but was not very nimble in doing so.

Pennsylvania dairy farmer survey looks back at 2020

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:00:01 -0400

A year ago, in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, leaders of Pennsylvania’s Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) created a survey to determine what effect COVID-19 had on Pennsylvania’s dairy farmers and to get a snapshot of the dairy industry.

Learn to use milk price risk management

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:00:01 -0400

Modern milk price risk management has been around for more than 20 years. As we have seen in 2020, with the impact of COVID-19 on the dairy market, milk price volatility is not going away.

Manage your risk: Dairy Margin Coverage sign-up is underway

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:00:01 -0400

U.S. dairy farmers have been struggling with suppressed milk prices for nearly four years. The first part of 2019 has been better, but improved milk prices have been overshadowed by tariff and trade issues, extremely wet weather in much of the country and the length of time milk prices have been low.