For the past few weeks, we have been keeping our eye on one amazing cow that has far exceeded our production expectations

Labor costs more than just money on a farm. That can be positive while also challenging

Predicting future milk prices has become a precarious endeavor as of late. This holds true in both the United States and New Zealand

Being in sales can have a bad reputation, but I appreciate it as a chance to solve problems and provide value for customers

After being in a constant climb since May’s opening forecast, USDA economists shaved $1.65 off the agency’s All-Milk price projection for 2023

New Zealand’s Global Dairy Trade (GDT) may be a harbinger of U.S. milk prices this coming fall and winter

At $27.10 per hundredweight, dairy farmers received a record price for their milk in April 2022. This is the first time the All-Milk price pushed past either the $26 or the $27 threshold

As I write this, prices for the rest of the year are north of $22 per hundredweight (cwt.). Yes, input costs are high, which cuts into that high price, but nevertheless, profit margins likely look goo

There’s never a great time to have business costs of just about every kind rising, but if pandemic recovery, record inflation, and a war were going to force prices for farm inputs up

We are beginning to see the term “make allowance” in dairy headlines, and it is important to understand what it means and how it works

The Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) started in California on November 1, 2018, which means we have been operating under the FMMO for 39 months

Inflation. There isn’t a day that goes by in which that word doesn’t grab a headline these days. It’s at a new 40-year high at 7.9%

With milk futures prices nearing or at record highs, it’d be easy to sit back and enjoy a solid year that dairy farmers have long waited for

Just over two months into the new year, it has become clear that 2022 will hold many of the same fluctuations and fears of the past pandemic few years

Preliminary totals have come in, and those totals don’t look favorable for fluid milk. Sales slumped 4.1% by sliding from 46.2 billion to 44.3 billion pounds when comparing 2020 to 2021, according...

We can’t fully explain current dairy prices without looking at the world market. While U.S. milk production fell below year-ago levels in November and December

Milk prices in New Zealand matter to dairy farmers in the United States because the island nation is the world’s largest dairy exporter

They aren’t always perfect, but we know we can depend on our automated milking systems

Today’s milk case offers a variety of products differentiated by flavor, fat content, package size, and other characteristics that call out to consumers, but that’s not all

The global milk production forecast calls for minimal growth from New Zealand and the European Union, the world’s top two dairy export markets