Where Do We Go from Here?
Wow! This has been a difficult start to our new year. Cash flowing has been difficult with milk in the neighborhood of $14-15/cwt. Given the rising cost of so many inputs and the recent difficulty of acquiring the financing you need, what can you do? Most banks still seem to understand this, but there is, at best, the possibility of delays on loan renewals because even their patience with the dairy industry has been wearing thin. One of the items I am most concerned about, in the entire scenario of finance and the world economy, revolves around the seeming presence of paralysis – that is, the inability to make a decision.