Making Money in a Down Market
Two Minnesota farm families share their risk management strategies. Without a risk management program, the Becker family of Fairmont, MN, admits they...
Cash Flow Hedges Have Accounting Implications
Understanding the pros and cons of hedge accounting should be considered in your risk management plan. Hedging and key risk management principles have...
Manage Volatility, Manage Risk
Know your costs, write a plan and execute it with discipline to manage risk and protect your hard-won assets. Economists' predictions that 2008 would...
Industry's Stimulus Package Cull Sows
It's tax season and as predictable as a New Year's resolution we vow, again, to keep closer tabs on our dollars. It's a wise pledge. But in these trying...
Uncertainty Engulfs Meadowbrook Farms
The farmer-owned packing plant shutdown raises more questions and discontent. News of Meadowbrook Farms Cooperative suspending operations at its $39 million...
Use Risk Management to Avoid Pitfalls
Macroeconomic fundamentals will dominate the markets and trickle down to pork producers, so keep a close eye on inflation/deflation signals. On July 14,...
Lender Predicts More Market Volatility in 2009
Ups and downs in the market should equal breakeven year for many. If anything is for certain in 2009, it is that volatility has become the norm in the...
Forecasters Predict 10-15% Drop in Pork Exports
“What are exports going to do this year?” I get that question a lot these days as producers, packers and processors, knowing the huge role that exports played in 2008, contemplate what is almost certainly the first year-on-year export decline in 18 years....
Think COOL, Exports and Pork Quality
U.S. livestock producers should not be surprised that Canada’s beef and pork producers are trying to make lemonade out of the lemons that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law sent their way...
USDA Adjusts Corn Usage Forecast
USDA made some significant changes in its forecasted “usage” numbers for corn in this week’s monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. The adjustments reflect the significant changes that have occurred in...
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next
