Preweaned calves are the most expensive young stock to feed as measured on a day-to-day basis

Bundle and save! Includes: (1) Dairy Money Matters and (1) Farm Accounts & Records book

Each and every replacement heifer and the resulting cull cow come with a cost. Net herd replacement cost (NHRC) is one way to calculate the value of animals leaving your herd

If you milk cows for a living, no one needs to tell you that milk checks have been downright terrible

Have you heard of the four-legged milk stool? A popular analogy among author Gary Sipiorki’s talks and Money Matters column articles, he makes the argument that financial awareness is as critical...

New! This book serves as an approachable resource to understanding and improving agricultural business management

Three headlines sum up which industry is seeing early casualties in the just-launched trade war between the U.S. and its biggest customers

Growing up in the 1980s on my family's dairy farm in central Oregon, I really was unaware of the farm crisis

It’s no surprise that just about everything that goes into making milk is expensive

My family’s dairy has had great luck and bad luck with employee turnover. We have had people work for us who I have known since I was in elementary school

Caitlin and I have been writing our “Daddy and Daughter Dairy Together” blogs for Hoard’s for a while now

When consumers spent $1 on dairy products in 2017, dairy farmers received 30 cents of that dollar

Across the country America’s dairy farmers are sitting down to kitchen tables and making tough choices

To emphasize the importance of a healthy dairy sector to the overall U.S. economy, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) commissioned an economic research firm to quantify that impact

A couple years ago, after we realized that the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) wasn’t going to offer us any meaningful protection, we created our own self-funded insura

Dairy isn’t the only agricultural commodity facing a downturn in pay prices. In its latest forecast, USDA projects that farm income will be $59.5 billion nationally in 2018

Even when offered really good professional advice, one should consider how that advice fits into the farm’s goals

Peter Vitaliano Much of the talk about the economic outlook for the nation’s dairy farmers in 2018 has been rather downbeat lately

Dairy replacement prices fell 24 percent, or $510 in the last four years

Previously, a financial analysis system call “DuPont” was introduced that assesses profitability through three primary levers