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Many dairy producers are on solid financial ground, Financial experts offer tips to hold that ground, such as taking advantage of current interest rates and positioning your farm as a preferred employer.

Friday’s cold storage report gave us a mixed bag of information after a fairly bullish milk production report earlier this week.

The continued strength of milk futures shifted the mindset of traders to bullish as dry product prices provide support to the market.

The heartland is bright, beaming with illuminated lights. Dairy farmers are part of a ‘2% club’ that works hard and helps put food on the global table. The lessons learned propel farm kids far in life.

Live From World Dairy Expo - Pivot Bio’s Steve Vosberg, Territory Service Manager, WI and Brent Sunderlage, Field Agronomist - Pivot Bio

The incidence of transition-cow diseases has budged little, and these maladies – mastitis, metritis, retained placenta, and poor fertility – continue to make up about 75% of all mature dairy cow diseases.

The USDA has extended the program to allow all schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to students. This is also helping eat into U.S. dairy supplies.

The busyness of the summer season is finally over, but it has some producers staring out into their fields wondering what they need to do to help stretch their feed inventories throughout the fall and winter.