Family meetings just make sense
Regardless of the size of your dairy farm, if there are family members involved - directly or indirectly - with the business, it is important to conduct regular family business meetings.
Dairy Channel: Carbon sequestration research and its implications for agriculture
Ernie Oelker shares details of research to determine just how much carbon is in the soil under various management systems. The results may surprise you.
Developing a vision statement
Developing a vision statement is an important part of managing a dairy farm. Using input from the people who help make it successful to do so is invaluable.
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.
Your finances tell you how competitive you’ll be
Learn how to understand Cost Control: Operating Expense Ratio as defined by The Ohio State University Dairy Excel 15 Measures of Dairy Farm Competitiveness.
There is nothing natural about agriculture, when you think about it
All natural eggs! Naturally raised chickens! Natural tofu! If ‘natural’ is so good, then why doesn’t Ford claim a natural pickup, or Apple an...
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.
DairyExcel: Keep new employee’s feelings in mind
Terry Beck, OSU agricultural extension agent in Wayne County and a member of OSU's DairyExcel team, writes on making a new employee's first few days on the farm a positive experience.
Meet your goals with good budgeting
Budgeting helps guide you through your decision-making process as you attempt to commit resources to the most profitable enterprises on the farm.
Finding that ‘good ol’ farm kid’
Farm owners and operators are advancing in age and when looking at who will perform the daily operations, it may feel like there is nowhere to turn.
