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What triggered high milk prices? Exports
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Cash prices will barely cover direct costs of raising corn
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Talking with EASE: How to engage the public about animal welfare
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Building, evaluating farm family relations
Success in family businesses is a two-way street — top managers creating an environment in which people can succeed and people taking advantage of the opportunities given them. The guidelines for being known as an outstanding family member in the business are strikingly similar to the guidelines for building a reputation as an outstanding non-family […]
What triggered high milk prices? Exports
As a percentage of total U.S. production, we are now exporting more dairy products than corn. (We exported the equivalent of 31.2 billion pounds of milk, or more than the total annual milk production from New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania combined.)
Get ready as cold weather continues
This year’s colder-than-usual weather reinforces the need to be prepared.
Cash prices will barely cover direct costs of raising corn
There’s been shift in profit centers on some Midwestern dairy farms for a couple years, one that is likely to shift again in 2014.
Dairy prices look favorable for 2014, but anything could happen
Dairy prices, while hard to predict, do look favorable for new year.
Outlook for the upcoming year’s crop input, farmland value and cash rent
Cropland values in Ohio have increased again in 2013. Data from the Ohio Ag Statistics Service shows an increase of 12 percent for bare cropland in Ohio for 2013. According to their data, bare cropland averages $5600/acre, up from $5000/acre the previous year. The Ohio Cropland Values and Cash Rents Survey (AEDE) conducted in January […]
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 tax professionals about the latest changes to the IRS tax codes. Today, I would like to remind farmers to push the numbers with their pencil to determine their potential tax liability […]
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 sold per worker, we would usually say yes, at least a million pounds per worker. But a funny thing happened this year, or rather last year according to the recently released […]
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 a year. Racine County was home to gazillions of small dairy farms with “Golden Guernsey” or “Registered Holstein” signs at the end of farm lanes. The farms and barns were fascinating. […]
Survey gives a glimpse into northeastern Ohio’s dairy future
More than 78% of the dairy farms surveyed in northeastern Ohio plan to continue to operate during the next five years, despite the many challenges facing dairy operations.
Ohio State Fair was more than ‘fairtastic,’ it was awesome
In our industry, we may market milk, but I still believe that our best “off the farm” product is our kids.
For a family dairy farm to succeed, someone needs to step up and lead
Successful top managers have successful businesses. Failing top managers have failing businesses. Family farms are no different.
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