How sharp are you as a dairy farm manager?
Production management and business management is a partnership on successful dairy farms.
If you must work the holidays, keep the workplace festive
If you must work the holidays, here are some tips to make it go as smoothly as possible.
Lower profitability could affect land rents and values in 2016
Tight profit margins will be big on the minds of producers in 2016, and could affect rent and land values.
Even with technology and so much food, most are ‘food ignorant’
Even with technology, this next generation is borderline clueless of what it takes to produce food, and even more clueless at what it takes to feed 7+ billion people on a daily basis.
The greatest harvest may be the next generation in agriculture
At the right moment and time, you can and will be an extremely influential mentor and you may never know when that teachable moment is within your grasp!
App lets dairymen collect and manage calving records in real-time
Hey dairymen, the free eCalving app is available for touchscreen mobile devices.
EPA proposal could mean stricter pesticide application requirements
A proposal by the EPA could mean age restrictions and more training requirements for farmers to get recertified for pesticide application.
Flexible cash farm leases offer advantages
Cash lease arrangements often create a negotiating environment where there is asymmetric information.
Time for a checkup: Corn silage quality may be highly variable this year
So for the feeding program on the farm, it's the time of the year when we need to do a checkup on the corn silage.
Better farm management in 30 seconds
Too many farms don’t have reliable systems in place to capture numbers that can help their bottom line. And sometimes, all it takes to track those numbers are 30 seconds, says OSU Extension Specialist Dianne Shoemaker.
