Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Positivity

Dig out those magazines they are turning positive.

Financial update: some profit coming in the dairy industry. Have you started locking some margins?

For the cattle buyers please don’t overshoot prices for dairy cattle. There are still lots of replacements. Please read this article. It’s about land but follows through. We call it the 20/20 rule. 20% income down and 20% higher inputs.

If you don’t stay up late, please add a bookmark to this one.

It’s about Michigan. Please read pages 1-12 of Michigan Farmer February 2011. Let’s hope the feathers last page 12. I talked to Governor Snyder before he was elected. He seems like a straight shooter.

True GREEN Energy page 8 Dairy Today Power and Profit January 2011.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Dairying in the year 2011 (The tween years)

Welcome to our Blog, if this is your first time here. We now have a Facebook called Springing Acres.
Guess what’s back on our mind? Yes, just boring old economics.

In October of 2009, we wrote in article on Milk Pricing Strategies or Profit. We’re still in that mode.
The difference today is most of the press is on the same page. Here are a few links from other sources to get you going:
Use Dairy’s Rally to Get Started Marketing in 2011
Dairy Margin Insurance Making More Sense
Since the writing of our Milk pricing blog post we have had changes to the Livestock Gross Margin.
LIVESTOCK GROSS MARGIN FOR DAIRY CATTLE INSURANCE POLICY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

The market this year is going to be interesting to say the least. Here is January 3rd’s daily dairy report and here is January 28th’s daily dairy report.

Are you motivated to develop a marketing plan or wait and see?