Articles Tagged with ''feed costs''
Despite lower feed costs, lower milk prices drove dairy producer margins to new lows.
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Dairy risk management calendar: August 2023
Progressive Dairy provides monthly online updates of important dates, reports and advice affecting risk management decisions.
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Planning: The key to backgrounding on grass
When carefully considered, backgrounding calves to different weights can offer a path to more profitability for cow-calf producers as they market their calves at less conventional times.
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USDA outlook sees little change in 2023-24 milk production but weakening prices
Monthly WASDE report offers forecasts for dairy, beef and feedstuffs
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May 2023 DMC margin plummets to $4.83 per cwt
A declining U.S. average milk price more than offset lower average overall feed costs, shrinking the milk income margin.
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How to increase dairy farm cash flow
An overview of the changes one dairy farm made in the parlor and feed center that increased labor efficiency, enhanced milk quality and increased overall profitability.
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Dairy risk management calendar: July 2023
Progressive Dairy provides monthly online updates of important dates, reports and advice affecting risk management decisions.
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Goal-driven management takes dairies to the next level
Using measurable benchmarks; maintaining a goal-driven management culture; and identifying a set of key advisers and employees to regularly review cow health, production and forage metrics are three steps dairies can take to improve financial performance.
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USDA cuts 2023 milk production forecast, Class III and all-milk price projections lowered
Milk production and price projections for 2024 follow patterns similar to 2023.
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April 2023 DMC margin falls to $5.84 per cwt
A declining U.S. average milk price more than offset lower average overall feed costs, keeping the milk income margin at its lowest level since August 2021.
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