Talking with EASE: How to engage the public about animal welfare
It’s easy to say someone else should do the education, and Extension, Farm Bureau, private industry and others do so, but it means even more when the public can hear a farmer describe what he or she does.
Push the pencil now so you are prepared
During the next month, I will be on the road across Ohio helping to teach the OSU Income Tax Schools. These workshops help teach...
Show business gets in your blood
In the musical Annie Get Your Gun, the lead character belts out the lyrics to There's No Business Like Show Business. The key message is that folks in show biz stick together.
No Black Friday for dairy farmers
Dairymen can't make a profitable year based on one-day's sales, like Black Friday retailers. Being profitable requires you to be in the top 20 percent of dairy farms. Being “average” is accepting lower profitability or even sometimes at being unprofitable.
There will be a farm bill … eventually
It is always difficult at best to forecast prices more than a couple of months ahead, but judging on current Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cash and futures prices, dairymen should be enjoying a pleasant pre-Christmas season.
Fertilizer prices: Many factors to consider
Many factors will influence fertilizer prices this fall, into 2014
Who wants to be a milk millionaire?
Who wants to be a millionaire? If we are talking about owning dollars, lots of people would volunteer. If we are talking about milk...
Producers can work on creating value
America can do more to expand the dairy export markets.
Is China a potential market for U.S. dairy products?
The U.S. dairy industry will continue to try to get milk produced in the U.S. into China. But will the U.S. milk continue to be processed by U.S. companies before it enters China?
Will we go the route of Racine County?
My parents were born and raised in “America’s Dairyland.” As a child, we drove back and forth to Racine County, Wis., at least twice...
