Milk - General
From a tattered farm two years ago after a tornado flattened the Leach’s dairy in Linwood, Kansas, to a farm with new barns and new life, the Leach family says the journey to rebuild wasn’t easy, but it was worth it.
Three days before Christmas, on the 22nd of December, the Mueller family’s dairy barn in Strawn, Ill., went up in flames and their dairy farm suffered an enormous loss.
Global Dairy received a gut punch when the derecho plowed through its South Dakota farm last week. The storm’s impact took out their main parallel parlor that milks 1,700 cows after its roof collapsed.
As a last-minute shift toward small-scale celebrations upends demand for the star of Thanksgiving tables, turkey producers and retailers are scrambling to fill orders for lightweight birds and partial cuts.
Up to $12.06 million can be passed to your loved ones upon death, exempt from federal estate tax. While living, you can also gift $16,000 annually to as many individuals as you’d like. Of course, some exceptions apply.
Succession planning is difficult and time-consuming, but it is also a key step for a business that can grow into the future. Regardless of where you are in the process, you can always take another step.
To stay competitive in the labor market, consider adding an attractive paid time off policy to your farm business to help keep you and employees happy.
Cows have an incredible ability to eat grass grown on land not suitable for much else and to transform it into a nutritious drink that feeds us all, in collaboration with dairy farmers like me.
“Many of Canada’s dairy TRQs remain unfilled, and this represents a tangible loss to New Zealand’s dairy exporters…
During Top Producer Summit, myself and the participants in the “Rockstar Female Farmer and Powerful Leaders Panel” discussed several strategies and tips.