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President’s Message

Nov 14, 2024

By Paul Olson Greetings from the upper Midwest. Many September days the weather was picture-perfect, allowing good corn silage and soybean harvests. The corn fields dried down rapidly, and that job is largely in the rearview mirror. For the most part, the crop looked...

Dairy Marketing Signals

Nov 14, 2024

USDA Releases National Farmers Ranked Third For Dairy FarmsRepresented By Brad Rach Hoard’s Dairyman recently published its annual list of the Top 50 milk cooperatives in the United States. This year’s list had some bad news concerning farm numbers. Total membership...

Cattle Marketing Signals

Nov 14, 2024

Cattle Futures Prices Could Move Back Up Over the $190 Mark Well, the attitude of fund traders continues to swing wildly in approximately three to four-month cycles. In August the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was just starting to crash, supposedly because the stock...

Grain Marketing Signals

Nov 14, 2024

Marketing Plan Crucial To Surviving Today’s Markets USDA has placed the average price for corn in the $4.50/bu range for 2024 through 2026. That projection has, unfortunately, proven to be reality to date. Cash corn prices for corn slipped below $4.00 in many...

National Farmers Saved Us

Sep 14, 2024

National Farmers stepped in and saved us in the spring of 2020 By Denise Rackley Milking 800 cows three times a day doesn’t leave much room for change. In 2020, when the dairy processing plant decided it couldn’t haul the 65,000 pounds of Double Dale milk produced...

Going Old School

Sep 14, 2024

By Denice Rackley Combating the economic constraints placed on family dairy farms can take various forms. One dairy may turn to high-tech solutions, while another chooses to go old school. Either way, capable human help can be scarce. Robots provide answers for some...