If we go back 10-plus years, most dairy farms bred all their cows and heifers for dairy calves and raised all heifer calves as dairy herd replacements.

High-functioning family businesses need good conflict just as much as they need the right protocols for production.

Lenders tend to put a lot of weight on the strength of the balance sheet and primarily appraise tangible assets to make our balance sheet flow. This helps to set sale prices and make lending work. 

With wildfires becoming more frequent in more regions of the U.S., the health hazards of working outdoors in smoky air is an issue for hundreds of thousands of workers – not just those fighting the fires.

In today’s industry, dairy producers are faced with a multitude of change. While these changes are difficult to navigate, understanding the process of change and how one can respond provides opportunity to flourish in the trenches of a transformation.

Transition talks can be dreadful and pit parties against each other in an effort to find a long-term plan for the farm, but with the right approach, these talks can have an entirely different successful outcome.

Your farm can exceed all the industry benchmarks for production, but if someone is severely injured, those production benchmarks are suddenly not important. Effective leaders incorporate building and maintaining a safety culture into their farm management strategy.

Borrowing money to pay the bills? If that’s you, you are not alone. As a dairy consultant who helps farmers increase income and efficiencies and reduce their expenses, these are the phone calls that have been coming in recently as worries loom over what’s to come in 2023.